Will work for Genealogy Leads

Scored some amazing family history material yesterday when I went to visit Mum. I've been working with my cousin on cleaning my grandfather's writings, and Mum had gathered some material together that she had tucked away. One of the items was a tiny, original tintype of my grandfather's mother, one of very few extant. I had seen previous photos of this, but I was able to take a high-res image of it and tidy it up:


Lena Margaretta Morley, 1861-1897

Many, many other things like this in the trove. More precious than gold!

Pavlov? Darwin? Freud?

I love hot food. There's nothing like a good capsaicin rush.

The last two times I've prepared spicy foods, though, I've had a very unusual experience - the flush to the face begins as soon as I've opened the bottle of hot sauce - and haven't even eaten it yet. The first time it happened, I thought "imagining things." But it happened again today... as I was liberally lacing my burritos with Tabasco, I started getting the burning and vascular dilation that I always experience with certain peppers - very much like a Niacin flush, if you've ever experienced that. And, what's even stranger, I'm experiencing a repeat as I type this, half an hour after lunch. Just thinking about it was sufficient to recall the phyiological response.

Now tha's just weird. Maybe if I salivate enough, I can get my doorbell to ring.

Writer's Block: Tricky Questions

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"I need to talk to you" belongs to the same family as "We need to talk." The chilling fear that turns the male viscera to water has been a phenomenon since prehistoric times.