The Seeds of Destruction

Today it’s plants that have me depressed. Inside, mostly, but my spirits are crushed as inexorably as Lynn’s front garden, beset by pound upon pound of ice slid from the roof. At one point I fancied myself quite the green thumb, although this didn’t stem (get it?) from any great knowledge of plants. It was […]

For Whom the Booth Tolls

Once upon a time, I was young (it’s true!). I was young but I thought I was relatively grown up, being in the sixth grade and all. Being in the sixth grade, I had a reading book, and in this reading book was a selection from The Phantom Tollbooth, which I dutifully read as it […]

A Big Ol’ Heart

Friday did not go as planned, as is frequently the case, but the case rarely involves contact with three different veterinary services nearly simultaneously. You may recall, Na Ki’o was not moving very well, and I got a Thursday morning appointment at his usual clinic but with a new veterinarian — an appointment that didn’t […]

Steaming About STEM

The world is a changing place, which I’m sure is all for the better, except for the part where none of it feels better. Here locally, we have a liberal arts college, I mean university, busily abandoning the liberal arts. I was going to write about this a month ago, but I thought I would […]

Cats as Cats Can

I didn’t mean to go AWOL on everyone. In fact, I was halfway through an entry yesterday, one that will keep, when I paused to take a cat to a veterinarian in an encounter that just put me off for the rest of the day. Over a year ago, while waiting in a dermatologist’s outer […]

Jeepin’ With Janelle

I believe we’ve established I generally don’t know what I doing, technologically at least, when it comes to this blog, particularly after WordPress thought it was a great idea to switch to “blocks,” whatever they may be. Some of you have been kind enough to post comments after you’ve read an entry, and while I […]