Music and Cats

In 1921, a small house, a cabin really, was built near the shore of Lake Washington, several miles north of the city of Seattle. It had a large living room, with a big river rock fireplace and a parquet floor, a bedroom, a little bathroom and a tiny kitchen. I imagine that it was a […]

As those of you who own live with wait on cats, have friends who live with cats, or have ever seen cats know, cats spend a large amount of time supine, horizontal… in a word, flat. Cats sleep more than half of each day, much of it during the daylight hours. So, the second installation […]

The second writing class was even more fun than the first. Laura, our teacher, lectured for a while about narrative voice and structure, and the difference between the author and the narrator in memoir, and blah blah perspective blah… Or maybe I could just type up my class notes. Wouldn’t that be fun reading? Anyway, […]

The first assignment for my writing class was a memory exercise. We were to write quick impressions of some firsts: first scent, first pet, first teacher, first car. Then we were to write a scene about one of these things. I chose first song. What follows is not, in fact, one remembered morning from […]

Everything was going fine with the chutney-making. Apples of 3 varieties (Jonagold, Liberty and Honycrisp from South 47 Farm) and onions (of the tear-producing variety) had been chopped, combined with organic cider vinegar (complete with veil of the mother), brown sugar, sultana raisins, and brought to a boil. Mustard seed, ginger, chili flakes, turmeric, cardamom, […]