Music and Cats

When we bought our house, our entire front walk - from sidewalk to porch steps - was lined on either side with a dense boxwood hedge about three feet tall. I didn’t much care for the hedge, as its boxy geometry seemed too formal for our Craftsman-ish house, and it prevented people from easily stepping […]

For Sergei and Sasha, what begins as a wrestling match often ends as a snuggling session. Last night, after tussling for a couple of minutes, they settled down with a little reciprocal bathing.

Every once in a while, one of the paintings on Duane Keiser’s A Painting a Day blog makes me gasp. This was one such painting, and it was not yet marked SOLD. When I showed the painting to Paul, he thought at first glance that it was a real blue jay feather glued onto […]

Last night, Paul and I finally saw Les Triplettes de Belleville. This quirky story - of Champion, an orphaned boy who becomes a competitive cyclist; his club-footed grandmother, Madame Souza; and the Triplets, three aging jazz singers who befriend her - is by turns sweetly charming, funny and dark. It may also be the most […]

Several pigeons frequent the roof of the apartment building next to our house. When I hear the pigeons’ soft, trilling calls, I open our bedroom curtains. It’s as if I’ve turned on CAT TV. The McKittens gather on the trunk to watch and cackle. Like observers at a tennis match, they turn their heads […]