Music and Cats

I’ve been posting photos of our furry family only occasionally for fear of appearing like one of those crazy cat ladies. What, writing about them every few days already makes me sound like a crazy cat lady? Fine then, if the damage is done, I’ll stop resisting. While cats are much less cooperative than buildings […]

Tuesday night was the first meeting of the memoir writing class that I’m taking at UW Extension this quarter. I haven’t taken a real class since finishing architecture school 16 years ago. I’ve gone to continuing education seminars, and the occasional short workshop, but nothing on the scale of this full-quarter, 3-hours-each-Tuesday class. Given […]

Dear Philip,
Mom says you want to see more pictures of us. She asked us to pose for photos. Posing is boring. Jumping for raffia is fun. Looking away from the camera is fun. Here are some pictures that Mom took of us today. Hope you enjoy them.
Our best to your beasties,Lyra, Sasha and Sergei McKitten […]

There’s a blog I read occasionally that has a section on the sidebar entitled “Bloggers I have Verified to be Flesh.” Before yesterday, had I made such a list, it would have been comprised of my husband Paul (who has been well and truly verified) and our “blog children,” the three women who started their […]

I have plenty to say about politics. So far, I have not chosen to say anything here. I let my husband Paul, savvy political analyst that he is, handle that over at his blog. Every marriage has its distribution of labor; this is one of ours. However, when I saw this button on his […]