Music and Cats

SRP tagged me (and Vicki sorta tagged me) for this meme almost two weeks ago, when I was putting together the Carnival of the Cats roundup. I read nothing but cat-blogging posts that weekend, and I didn’t realize I’d been tagged until a couple of days ago.
Seven things I plan to do before I […]

… is the subject line of an email I received at work today. Because it made me laugh out loud (rare for an email at work), and it’s wonderfully written, and I love its author, I’m sharing it with you.
A fable
Once upon a time, there was a lonely little chair. While it was quite […]

Last night, Sergei was busy shaking to death one of his rabbit fur toys when he spotted a small spider crawling across our bedroom ceiling. Who cares about a fur rattle when there’s real live prey in the room? It didn’t matter to Sergei that the spider was several feet above his head. He watched […]

Yesterday was the opening day of the Mississippi Renewal Forum, a gathering of 200 architects, urban planners and other professionals who will be working to develop a regional plan to rebuild the Mississippi Gulf Coast. The group is meeting for six days in the hotel of one of Biloxi’s oceanside casinos. In one of many […]

On Sunday, Paul and I went to see “Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.” We’ve been fans of Nick Park’s short films for years, and had been looking forward to the first feature-length film starring the cheese-loving inventor Wallace and his intrepid dog Gromit.
Happily, the movie is playing at Seattle’s Cinerama, our […]