This is Mate. He is wearing the new hat I made him. The new hat is a wee bit too small, and made of alpaca, so it’s not very stretchy. I got the hat wet and put it on Mate’s head so it could stretch just big enough to fit Mate’s head. Mate does not… Read More

 I think when my family looks back on the pandemic, we will remember our pets the most. We float around the house, afraid of too much contact. If we make too much contact we’ll rub each other the wrong way, and we MUST NOT DO THAT because we’re STUCK here in the same place, without… Read More

 I think people need mirrors. Not the glass things that show us our wrinkles, but people we love and respect and would do anything for who give us a vision of the person we are becoming. But you have to pick your mirror carefully. It has to be someone who is fundamentally decent, and someone… Read More

 For anyone who knows this song, they know this is going to be a bummer of a post. I have a friend–a good one, I think, although most of our friendship is via text–who is dearly in love with an aging Goddess of a cat. I have at various times begged him wherein the time… Read More

 YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAAYAYAAYAYAAYAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Okay– it feels like February is proof that we made it–not just to 2021 but to the year beyond. I mean, nobody imagined it was going to get better immediately and the fog would be lifted and we’d be all in unicorns and rainbows, right?  But it does seem to be incrementally better, so… Read More

 The paths at the smaller dog park are really narrow compared to the older dog park where we just started to go sometimes. I’m not the hot mess I used to be, doodling along with the dogs running circles around my feet and trying to kill me. No–I hold them in one hand or the… Read More

So I have this T-shirt that I never wear. I ordered it in the second week of November, 2016, and it’s bright pink. It’s got two very recognizable silhouettes on it–on of the twin towers before they went down, and a certain former president who, shall we say, was lacking in fitness and presentation. The… Read More

 So what happened was this… The kids hate brussels sprouts. Loathe them. Whine about the smell them taking over the kitchen. Said they smelled like farts. (Teenagers. What a joy.) After a few ill-advised attempts to sneak them into the kids’ diets via a well loved protein, well, they evolved. The kids called them “chicken… Read More

 *Warning. Political ramble coming–and I do mean RAMBLE. Two years ago–shit. THREE years ago, we took a trip, dragged our adult children with us, went to a wedding, and then toured Washing DC and Philadelphia. I remember taking a trip like this with my family when I was a teenager, and even then, under all… Read More

 YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYYAYAYAYAYAYYAYAYAYAYAYYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY! *wipes brow* Phew. Okay. Made it. I mean, it was close, but we made it. I am so relieved–but honestly, I’M not letting my guard down yet. But while we wait tentatively to see if 2021 might not kick us in the teeth, let us hide where all good things are–inside books! Books will… Read More