Winslow got into a fight with some poison ivy. The poison ivy won.

Don’t mind me, folks. Just having an existential crisis.

For those of you who live in the Eastern United States, are you sick of cicadas yet? They were cool when they first came out, but now they keep flying into my car, latching into my hair, and making so much noise that my family has to yell if we want to be understood outside.

People often ask me, “AK, what kinds of mermaids are out there?” (They ask me this because they know I minored in mermanthropology and have an encyclopedic knowledge of all things mermaid and mer-made.)

Let’s continue the mermaid theme this month with this parody of one of my favorite paintings in the National Gallery of Art: Watson and the Shark by John Singleton Copley.