Spleen (n.) A large, highly vascular lymphoid organ, lying in the human body to the left of the stomach below the diaphragm, serving to store blood, disintegrate old blood cells, filter foreign substances from the blood, and produce lymphocytes. This organ is conceived as the seat of emotions or passions: venting one's spleen.
Suffix "-ess": indicating a female (e.g.: lioness, actress, waitress, sculptress, stewardess, etc.).
About Spleeness
My name is Holly Russo and I only have one spleen but it tries hard anyway. Right now my spleen and I live near Washington DC. I was born and raised on the Jersey shore where the ocean embedded itself in my soul; thus I am my most comfortable around water.
By day I do web stuff for the government and by night I do the same under a company I've created called Wavian ("Wavian" comes from my love of birds and all things avian combined with the waves of the ocean and the World Wide Web).
I love to take my spleen places -- it makes a great traveling companion. It's generally easy-going but spleens are sensitive creatures soothed mainly by writing, and so I have this blog to share, rant, remember and reflect.
Top blog posts:- Please do not throw up on me, and 24 other random things about me
- How "spleeness" got its name.
- Photos:
--Photos I've taken (Flickr)
--my Facebook photo album
- My joke blog
- Other writings and projects
- Contact me: spleeness@yahoo.com
Or ask me something anonymously
Favorite quote:
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. --Dr. Seuss
Me blogging
