Taught the first installment of my reconstituted "judaism & the environment" class at the HBHA today. kids enjoyed the antics of the worms. Typing entry on phone using starbucks wifi. Oh living in the future is pretty nifty! I have an appointment to try on a bathing suit. Aqua llama, here I come!

On Saturday, the worm friends and I trekked up to Camp Winding River up at Dearborn, MO to hang out with some girl scouts. In my capacity as "Worm Lady," I brought a traveling exhibit on composting, which consisted of a few visual aids and my worm friends in a impromptu shoebox carrying case. As the girls (From Kdg-HS) were setting up their unit ( Read more... )

"...I'm not a real doctor, but I am a real worm." - They Might Be Giants ( Read more... )

A couple of nifty worm stories on the internets recently:

Boneworms munched on bones of ancient whales. Boneworms, which were only recently discovered, latch onto the bones of the large dead animal like a whale or elephant seal with little rootlike structures and gradually eat the bones. The new discovery indicates that boneworms have been ( Read more... )

It's been an eventful few weeks and I haven't posted (anything) in the midst of upheaval and tumult, but some good things have happened ( Read more... )

It did not bode well for me this morning when I looked in the mirror at the ladies room at work and noticed the prominent red pimple on the very tip of my nose. Which was further reddened by the new day's batch of airborne pollen-driven sneezing and nose blowing. I could be a traffic beacon! To my chagrin I also realized that my gray t-shirt was ( Read more... )

I need to shout out to the sister-llama who has managed to cajole me into leaving my llama-cave once in a while, and who ensures by her presence that I have a pretty nifty time. Saturday afternoon, vexed by studying, my sister-llama dialed me at home and suggested that we take a walk. I was vexed by procrastination and watching "Twin Peaks" reruns ( Read more... )

I would say the highlight of my week so far has been my Sunday morning worm composting talk at synogogue's Tu B'Shvat ecology program. (When M. and I bowed out of salsa dancing after Rachel's b-day party on Sat. night, I explained I needed to go home to sleep so I could get up for the worm talk ( Read more... )

Llama had her first dinner party last night. And by "dinner party," I mean shabbat dinner at my house involved more persons than M., Llama and Alice-teh-Evil. Our honored guests were the sister-llama and Mushkie-llama, who came over and dined at my house. I roasted a piece of minute steak roast (which Josh-llama brought back from St. Louis for ( Read more... )

( Dawn Break )