Music and Cats

I usually maintain that people swear either because they lack verbal imagination or because they are unable to verbally articulate their feelings. As I drove to work this morning, I was apparently suffering from a severe lack of verbal imagination. I think I had a pretty good handle on my feelings.
Last night, I waited for […]

See the two small bumps in the fur between Lyra’s ears? Those are her horn buds. Yes, I know she looks almost angelically sweet, and most days she is, but occasionally she’s such a little hellcat that I expect tiny red horns to break through.
Is Lyra the only one with horn buds on the Friday […]

In the wake of hurricane Katrina, I mourn and I worry. I mourn the loss of lives, both human and animal, and I worry about the ongoing, but fractured, lives of the survivors.
I also mourn for and worry about the rich array of historic southern houses - from ante-bellum plantations to modest shotgun houses […]

One of the first sounds that I heard this morning was the chirping of birds in the trees around our house. There must’ve been hundreds of them; I could hear not only a symphony of calls, but a continuous rustling as they moved, unseen, among the tree branches. I carried Sasha to an open window, […]

In the timesheet program that my architecture firm uses, there are codes for tracking different aspects of the work that we do. As you might imagine, there are codes for design, drafting and site visits. At the top of the list of activity codes is one that might not seem obvious: ANALYSIS. When we begin […]