Irma came and went, and though many have it worse, we were without power/hot water/etc for almost 5 days. I can hack it, easy, but my wife and kids have never gone that long, so tensions have been running

Last year, around this time, my best friend lay dying. She had diabetes, was missing a leg her entire life, and was nearly 11 years old. I spent the last year of her life taking her to the vet and sobbing.

An extraordinarily photogenic moray eel. Taken at the MOTE Research Laboratory and Aquarium in Sarasota, FL.

My hound aches for the finer things For rabbit chases and greasy pots Like I pine for a bowl of thick, fatty stew On a crisp fall, morning After a lonely, cramping hunt in the misty Tennessee dew. My hound

taken at the MOTE research lab and aquarium in Sarasota, FL, US

I am a boy or a girl I am cruel or kind I want more and less What are you? When you select? Why do you say yes? Liberty and Death So delicate their fingers Freely tracing rhythms Cold dances on spines