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Neuroscientist: Aging, Alzheimer’s & Related Dementias, Parkinson’s Stella’s mom and professional photographer 🐶 Scuba diver 🤿 Views: mine 🧿 🔵
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When Stella senses I’m stressed, she’ll sit down and just lean her whole body in to me. ❤️

Stella just spent the last hour snoozing on top of me with her elbow jammed in my diaphragm. Best hour ever. Dogs are the best.

How’s it going? Well, I just chased my anxiety and depression meds + extra strength Tylenol down with a Celsius. Pretty great, I guess?

At 65lbs, I present to you the best, heaviest, and most expensive weighted blanket I’ve got ❤️

Whyyyyyyyyy does my dog’s illicit substance of choice have to be goose poop?! 😭 Like damn, I know I raised her to be classier.

This lil guy was maybe the size of my thumb nail

Grandfather passed away at the young age of 95 this past Wednesday morning. Not how I hoped my next trip “back home” would be but I hope he’s up there somewhere smoking his pipe, drinking a pint and having some great craic. ❤️

It’s been awhile, but today I just got to sit and be a sponge soaking up awesome science. I didn’t realize how much I needed that.

Seeing her happy gives me life 🩷

Saw this lil guy on our walk yesterday and had no idea what it was. Eastern eyed click beatle.

Stick is life. -Stella

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Me trying to do literally anything in the last week while cycling through 25 different emotions, decade-old trauma, and 5 personalities in repeat 56 minute loops. 🔊

The face of a girl who still doesn’t understand that the consequence of rolling in the mud is a bath later (during which she looks like the star of an ASPCA commercial)

Sleepy girl loves her new bed but still wants to be close to mom 🥰

Functioning brain cells: 0

This is the worst possible thing you can see when you have a high energy dog…

Neuroscientists: someone please invent a way to erase specific people from memory who I’ve made a concerted effort to forget over years. Yet once or twice a year, they randomly resurface in a dream. They don’t ever deserve space in my head. Brains are dumb. In the trash line goes.

I want her life…

I went in with no expectations other than “they will do something completely unexpected and blend genres I didn’t know you could blend.” Holy shit. Most experimental album yet and I’m here for it. Worth not going to sleep until 2am.

Watching lil bro’s commencement today. Unfortunately for him, he gets to be referred to as Dr. Duffy II for the rest of his life. Muahahahahaha

These days I get excited if I can be in bed by 10pm, which should tell you how absolutely stoked I am about this release if I’m going to stay up until midnight tomorrow, throw my giant headphones on and listen to the whole album all the way through.

JFC the ticks this year in Maryland are bad. We’ve pulled more off Stella in the last 3 weeks than all of last year. She’s on Simparica Trio monthly plus a topical spray whenever we go for walks and it still doesn’t feel like enough. I miss winter 😭😭😭

The joy I felt upon seeing this headline certified me as an old. www.wired.com/story/why-ca...