Science Storyteller Gifts

The Origins of Everything

'Bragging at the Old Physicists' & Old Writers' Home.'

'I wonder how Curious George fits into all this?'

'Poor Oog -- evolution sure has AGED him!'

The Great Chemical Novel.

'I told him all about the birds and the bees but he keeps asking about invitro fertilization.'

'I don't know whether we should call the world pres or keep quiet?'

Isaac Newton and the Apple Tree

'Isaac Newton, pursuing his study of the laws of motion,, discovers that a thrown ball can curve..."

Shepherd and eurydice

"My older self travels back just to remind me to put the cap back on this pen?"

"And the last little piggy cried, 'Oui, oui, oui' all the way home."

'I'm reading aloud, Jeremy - My lips are SUPPOSED to be moving!'

Blue Stockings - Woman revealing herself as author

"Thor! I am Thor! Ha. Just kidding. I'm Tom the Seagull."

"You're very interesting, for a civilian."

'I hate to be so skeptical, but I still think the seance business is a hoax!'

"I think the most rewarding part of caring for elderly parents is when they call you because they don't want to bother the 9-1-1 people."

Library sections; Fiction, non-fiction and do-it-yourself.

"These are the very weapons your mother and I used in our famous duel."

"Another dry scotch Manhattan, Mike. Make it a double."

"What's that? I asked for a teal lichen. That's a brown thread. Are you trying to upset me?"

"When I grow up, I'm writing the Great American App."

Facts of life - The birds and the dogs.

"At times I wonder what I've done with my life that makes me worth being saved."

'I didn't dedicate my book, A Lifetime of Wine Tasting, to my 3 ex-wives and nine kids, because they made it possible. I did it because they made it necessary.'

Dog chews 'The Cat Book'.

'Goodness, no Doctor, my husband is not calling you any insulting names. He's a duck and that's the only word he knows.'

Edgar Allen Poe

The Environmentalist

News: Deaths! Deaths! Deaths!

"I was going to chuck it all and go to Paris but I didn't have enough frequent-flier miles."

"It's a heck of a tale...and well told, but we don't publish resumes."

"Meet the embellisher 3-5 pm"

"I'm not having it if it's been genetically modified."