It is by far the oldest thing I own, and its antiquity will certainly beat anything else I could acquire in my lifetime.

While new to me, this brilliant object’s origins likely go back around three billion years, making this gem two-thirds the age of the earth. Though I am not convinced that diamonds really are a girl’s best friend, they do make for some fascinating science.

Sue Silva has a lifetime of experience with bugs. In some ways, she is a bug whisperer, as insects seem to flock to her side and her greenhouse, and she is often sharing with me the more interesting and unique ones that cross her path.

This is one that I can really sink my teeth into!

It has all the elements of a great story — an unusual find, a link to the past, a creature of epic proportions, and did I mention colossal choppers?

It is hard not to get excited about the mammoth megalodon and even more difficult to deny its dental distinction.

Now I know better.

Throughout my childhood, I only recognized cranberries as that deep red gelatinous blob that came out of a can on Thanksgiving Day.

Philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau might have been onto something when he defined happiness as “a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.”

I guess two out of three ain’t bad! After a two-week vacation in Italy and France (and a few stormy days stuck in Falmouth to boot), I can count my blessings to have the two latter, even if the former took a hit.

Ladies, hike those skirts up!

That might just be the only way to avoid tangling with the house centipede high-tailing it for the shelter under your frock. In a newsletter dated 1902, C.L. Marlatt, a US Department of Agriculture entomologist, described this despised insect this way.