by Amy Alexander In my Southern town, there were, the people claimed, certain surface streets that could kill you. Stay away from the streets named after Greek gods. Stay away from the zip code that ended in 08. These streets festered, filled with bad guys that live in shadows, even at noon, and dirty needles that could jump up and Read More
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Elephants Never Infest, Louse
“Well, the bad news is that you’ve definitely got a Pediculus pachydermis – elephant louse.” “Yuck, totally gross, like it has some weird tentacle thing hanging off the front!” “Yes, you’ve found its trunk. On the plus side, once we remove the louse, you shouldn’t get a recurrence. Elephants never infest.” Don’t forget to read “For the Love of Lice” Read More
“Well, the bad news is that you’ve definitely got a Pediculus pachydermis – elephant louse.”
“Yuck, totally gross, like it has some weird tentacle thing hanging off the front!”
“Yes, you’ve found its trunk. On the plus side, once we remove the louse, you shouldn’t get a recurrence. Elephants never infest.”
Don’t forget to read “For the Love of Lice” by Amy Alexander, a story about facing life’s problems – great and small – as a family.
And check out “Leaving for College” by Kim Luxoro, a parent’s letter to her child about things to never forget.
For the Love of Lice
by Amy Alexander When it comes to terrible things that adults imagine happening to children – drownings, kidnappings, being burnt on stoves, toppling headlong into Rubbermaid tubs and not being able to escape, crashing into semis in forward-facing, failing child seats, falling off of cliffs at The Grand Canyon, being sucked into the ocean by riptides, placing dry cleaning bags Read More