Mammal Mondays: The Pet Resort

I leave on a little holiday tomorrow morning, and Sherman is not invited. He’s staying home largely because we’re going to the Shuswap in BC, where it’s currently so hot that Sherman would expire if we had to leave him in the car for more than seventeen seconds unattended. He’s also recovering from his little…

Mammal Mondays: We Are Not Amused

My high school biology teacher used to correct single students who used a plural pronoun to refer to themselves. It became one of the things I could rely on, like the snarling stuffed marmot in his spot on the shelf above the microscopes. The conversations went something like this: “Um, we don’t think it’s fair…