Author: greenplacebo@mac.com

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THE BEE GURU

The bees were perhaps the most interesting part of the summer trip as I look back on it now. My mother had become a beekeeper, in the lucid lunacy of finally settling into retirement, with the carte blanche you are provided as such, allowing you to do things you’ve always wanted to do, but had never thought of actually doing.…

COLORING IN THE PENISES

  Fifth grade. Sex Ed time. Only now they don’t call it sex education, it’s “Health and Family Living.” And they don’t actually talk about sex! That would be unbecoming and unwarranted. But they get the anatomy down. And puberty. And apparently, the week-long subject ends with everyone coloring penises with crayons. Balls and alls. I’m sure they must have…