On Having "A Thing"

Curios, curiosities, and other pseudo personalities

It’s the year of the snail in Switzerland.

Every year, a preservation organization designates an animal to celebrate. The year we moved was the year of the hedgehog, which I thought explained why the grocery stores sold little hedgehogs sculpted out of raw ground pork with onions for quills and peppercorn eyes, until I learned that’s just a thing some pe…