Music and Cats

I wish that I could tell you that, my life having been less stressful for the past few months, my hair had regained most of its original pigmentation all on its own. Sadly, it doesn’t seem to work that way. I had my hair colored yesterday. I had been thinking about it since this […]

Today is the 35th anniversary of Earth Day. As part of your observance of this day, please consider taking the Ecological Footprint Quiz from the folks at the Earth Day Network and Redefining Progress. The quiz is intended to give you an idea about your impact on the earth’s resources, by “estimat[ing] how much productive […]

They are cats. You can’t ask them to pose. Were you able to make them understand such a request, they would probably refuse. Posing cats is much like herding them, with the added requirement that they not only go to some particular spot, but that they then hold still… just for a moment… please.
Occasionally, however, […]

It is after 8:00 p.m. The sun is just now setting. I like Spring.

One of the assignments for the memoir-writing class I’m taking is that each student attend an author reading, and report back to the class about it. After weeks of finding nothing on bookstore event schedules that interested me, in this week I found four authors whose readings I wanted to attend. I’ve been to two […]