Music and Cats

It doesn’t take much to get our cats up on their hind feet paws. A bit of string. A moth. A strand of my wet hair. Or, in this case, a narrow gold ribbon.

It’s Nina’s birthday! She has a great post up about her sixteenth birthday party, (which was more recent than mine), complete with birthday kisses. Go wish her a happy day, and give her a virtual kiss while you’re there.

Have you ever tried to write, in one page, the story of your relationship with the most important person in your life? That’s what I had to (try to) do for my memoir writing class. The assignment for last night was this: write a one-page brief on the subject of the memoir writing that you […]

I looked out my office window this morning, and saw the light on the chestnut tree across the street. Grabbed my camera, and went to take a picture through the window. Sergei saw this as an opportunity for petting, and walked across the windowsill just as I took this shot. Luckily, he didn’t block the […]

Doesn’t everyone have them? You know, the rules that you somehow grew up knowing, even though they were never written anywhere, and perhaps never even spoken? Some of my unwritten rules tend towards the neurotic. A few of them veer way over in that direction. While some unwritten rules are part of my family system, […]