Mom remembers the neighborhood pool closing every year with the first local case of polio. Sometimes it’d only be open a couple weeks.

She’d go with grandma to the hospital she volunteered at. Entire floors of iron lungs.




I’m waiting for an anti vaccination sort to contract rabies and refuse the vaccine. That’d be good for a chuckle.


“Life is life and fun is fun, but it's all so quiet when the goldfish die.”