1. If you haven‟t done so yet–
read the story at Luna Station Quarterly.
2. The narrator is named after a good friend
and hiking buddy of mine – Tony Airaghi
3. The orchard is named after Steve Sillett
and Marie Antoine, redwood canopy
researchers (who also fell in love!). I first
read about them in Richard Preston‟s
The Wild Trees.
4. This is a finding by E.O. Wilson. He actually put
the pheromone on a live ant to see what would
happen. Even though it was clearly kicking
and moving, his colony-mates kept picking him
up and returning him to the graveyard.
See „Hey I‟m Dead!‟ The Story of a Very Lively
Ant.
5. Inspired by my sister‟s husband. One time
we visited a Wendy‟s with an extremely
messy restroom.
My brother-in-law reported
thinking, “Why bother aiming?”
6. I learned this from Carl Sagan and Ann
Druyan in “Shadows of Forgotten
Ancestors”
7. Inspired by the never ending complaints
about the BCS I heard over the years, I
replaced it with a College Playoff
system. When I wrote this passage, I
had no idea just how numbered the
BCS days were. 7 months after I wrote
this passage, College Playoffs became
a reality.
8. Paraphrasing my husband who was
greatly moved by a 2009 study.
See Dead athletes' brains show damage
from concussions
9. This is me paraphrasing
my husband
paraphrasing a comic
from The Oatmeal
See Why Working
From Home is Both
Awesome and
Horrible
10. In the 2006 Chic-Fil-A Bowl
(Georgia vs Virginia
Tech), little stuffed cows
actually did parachute into
the crowd before the game.
13. In 2005 ESPN‟s Kenny Mayne did a
hilarious “The Mayne Event” segment
exposing all the quarterbacks who licked
their fingers before handling the ball. I
still remembered it seven years later.
