Music and Cats

I have always been a voracious reader. As a kid, I snuck into my walk-in closet to read when I was supposed to be asleep. (I haven’t had to do that in a long time.) In the past six months, however, I have read fewer books than in any six month period that I can […]

Several weeks ago, Lindy (of the beautifully-written foodblog Toast, which you should be reading if you’re not already) asked if I had any tips for photographing cats. “I swear,” Lindy wrote, “they even look blurry in life, before I try to snap a shot. Why can’t they just stay where they are while you adjust […]

Update: Because Janeen likes it, another photo of the same plant:

…in our back yard.

As we are currently without a kitchen, we (by which I mean Paul) occasionally fire(s) up the charcoal grill in our back yard for a real home-cooked meal. (In our family, grilling and coffee-making are man’s work. Of course I could do either of them, but why?) What you can’t see in […]

Is the market irrationally exuberant, or am I irrationally exuberant about the market? You be the judge.

As anyone who regularly peruses Music and Cats knows, I’ve had a passionate love affair with the Ballard Farmers Market for several years. I’ve watched that market grow from the younger stepsibling of more established markets into a thriving […]