Music and Cats

Sasha is one of the most relaxed cats I know. Never mind that he startles easily, and rarely comes out from under our bed when we have company. When I pick Sasha up, he becomes seemingly boneless; he’s a soft, warm, rumbling stuffed animal who occasionally chews on my thumb as I cradle him in […]

The charming Michele, she of the games (daily blogger fun) and the gams (drop-dead gorgeous), is taking a few weekends off from her blog to allow Mr. Wonderful to spoil her. (Lucky Mr. Wonderful! Lucky Michele!) Some of Michele’s blog friends are guest-blogging for her, and tomorrow (today already if you’re on the […]

When I decide at 9 p.m. to begin making some sort of preserves, Paul no longer even rolls his eyes. He knows that, some dreary day next winter, the good things that have come from my nocturnal kitchen adventures will appear on our table, tasting of summer. He also knows that he is powerless to […]

When my parents visit us in Seattle each summer, we joke that we’ll eat like bears while they’re here. We’re referring to the wild Pacific salmon (king, coho, silver) and luscious local berries (take your pick of straw, rasp, blue, boysen, tay, marion; the list goes on) that are in season this time of year, […]

No, the Situponisaur is not a recently discovered dinosaur, though if it were, my nephew Max would surely know of it already. The Situponisaur (alt. spelling: SituponisSore) is what happens when you take one out-of-shape, forty-something woman, put her on a bicycle with a narrow saddle designed for a slender-hipped, fit woman, and send her […]