Pauline Baird Jones

  • Go, Chicken Fat, Go!

    Do you ever hear a song in an ad or something and your brain twitches because you know it, but you’re aren’t sure from where? When I first heard the “Chicken Fat” song during an iPhone commercial (to promote a health app), I think my brain flinched. I kind of frowned and thought, I know…

  • Poison Ivy & Poison Makers

    When you hear the words “poison ivy,” does the song start inside your head? I wanted to add it here, but Youtube won’t let me. And it might give you mind words… And yes, if you know the song, it is evil to remind you of it. But Monday does that to me.  I was…

  • A Dad Joke

    My family likes to groan over the hubs jokes, so of course, I had to share one today. Because it’s Friday! From the hubs: “Do you know what they call a Harley covered in snow? A pop cycle! Told you it was a groaner! hahaha Do you have a Friday groaner to share? Go for…

  • To Clone or Not to Clone?

    Cloning came up in Found Girl. And since this is a series arc, or supposed to be (see my ‘why I wrote interview’), it had to come up in Lost Valyr, too. Because I write fiction, I can push the boundaries of science, but… While it’s possible to make genetic copies of organisms, it’s impossible…

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    8 Fun Facts About Octopuses

    We don’t need to rocket into deep space to encounter enigmatic alien creatures …just plunge into the deep sea. Yes, I’m speaking of Octopuses.

  • The Hubs Took This Picture for Me

    So, I was talking with the hubs the other day and he asked me if I’d seen the picture he took for me. The hubs takes a LOT of pictures, for a lot of reasons (mostly artistic), but he also knows I have a quirky sense of humor. (Two pictures NOT taken were the Jesus…

  • An Ice River Ran Through It

    I was going to blog today about my adventures with my snow blower (trust me, exciting stuff), but our temperature shot up 40 degrees over night. Add in a high wind, and we went from buried into snow to …interesting. I took some video, which you can view here, but if you want the quick…

  • Oh You Fickle Memory

    Memory is so funny. And so unreliable. It’s not just an age thing. Okay, I don’t know that. It could be an age thing, but even before I got old, what I remembered didn’t always mesh with the people around me. For instance, there is this Legendary Family Story about the day my brother shot…

  • Quick Reacting, Start Acting

    When you hear the words “poison ivy,” does the song start inside your head? Just in case it didn’t, here it is on YouTube: And yes, that was evil. But Monday does that to me. I was tooling around the hubs’ Flickr feed looking for blog post inspiration and saw the poison ivy photo. I…

  • Disconnected Spam Comments #LOL

    So since our blog hop, my An Other Worldly New Orleans New post has been getting hit daily with piles of stinking spam comments (with a few humorous gems in there which I still blew away because SPAM). Okay, you can go read the post or take my word for it that these comments and…