Music and Cats

Welcome to the 91st Carnival of the Cats! This week, it seems that some of our furry friends are getting into the spirit of the season. For the felines in this week’s sample, “the season” is Christmas. If your cats celebrate Saturnalia, Solstice, Chanakuh or Kwanzaa with you, I’d love to see photos!
I mentioned on […]

Poor Sasha McKitten. He would love to have a Christmas tree! Evergreens smell wonderful, almost as good as catnip. Other cats get to have Christmas trees. Why will Sasha’s people not buy him and his McKitten siblings a Christmas tree?

Last October and November, I wrote about the large addition I’d designed to a small Craftsman cottage, and my disappointment with the changes that the builders made during construction. A year later, the remodel is almost complete. The construction has taken so long in part because the two men who bought and were remodeling the […]

Today’s New York Times has a bunch of letters to the editor in response to the editorial that got me so worked up yesterday. I’d like to thank one New Orleans resident for making me laugh - in that laugh-to-keep-from-crying way - with his proposal:
Yes, if the rest of the country has decided that New […]

Sunday’s New York Times had an important editorial about the fate of New Orleans. You may be terribly tired by now of hearing about New Orleans, but this piece has a critical message: if we, as a nation, are not willing to spend the money to protect New Orleans from the next big storm […]