Take a Pet to Work Week

[leethet.livejournal.com]

My colleague is currently in the field (ahem) but I did catch him on his lunch (read: nap) break one day recently:

How To Write A Better Story

[st-crispins.livejournal.com]

I am thinking about offering a virtual version of my How to Write a Better Story this weekend. Anyone interested? What would be a good day and time? Saturday? Sunday? Afternoon or evening?

Take a pet to work week

[hypatia-66.livejournal.com]

I don't have pets — just these on a mantelpiece. If I had the real thing, I'd need a very big bath tub, and possibly a cage. As it is, they swim and fly free and I don't have to feed or clean up after them.

Dolphins, humpback whale, and swallows

The tile is a copy from a fresco at Akrotiri, the ancient village on Santorini, buried by a volcanic eruption around 1600 BCE.