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How to embarrass a parent
This example of how children can embarrass parents, relates not to how one of mine embarrassed me, but to how I embarrassed my father way back in the mid 1950s. ...
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Ode to the Australian Huntsman spider
"Huntsman spiders, members of the family Sparassidae, are known by this name because of their speed and mode of hunting. They are total assholes."...
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Genetics doesn't pass on professionally!
My Father's a Vet!
All my life I've been lucky to see some cool things in the animal world because dad's a Vet....
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Maggots, basically.
I dread Christmas, but last year I was feeling better about it, less judgey and adolescent. I guess that season is one big flashback to a time of hav...
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Backstage with the Oils
It was 1998 and I'd just came back from the EuroTrip with the lads, post-university. I'd really missed the fair shores of Australia, especially after a long and dreary-weathered European winter....
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No Gloating in the Pool, Please.
I’m taking my youngest child to his first swimming lesson on the weekend. I’m about as excited as one man can get when he knows he has to strip off a...
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