From the category archives:

Laughter

Letter to the PNWMPS membership

April 28, 2005

This past Christmas, Paul and I gave several gifts of membership in the newly formed Pacific Northwest Monthly Preserves Society. We had high hopes for the PNWMPS; we believed the products to be delicious, and all those who had sampled the preserves had enjoyed them. We had thought that, were our family members happy with [...]

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Unitarian Jihad: what’s in a name?

April 15, 2005

The Unitarian Jihad is growing. Get your own Jihad name today! When I mentioned earlier this week that ‘Sister Clusterbomb of Tranquility’ perhaps wasn’t really ‘me,’ I had no idea that there were others out there hard at work providing names for new jihadists. You now have several sources for your jihad name: The Unitarian [...]

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My kind of extremist

April 10, 2005

I’ve recently learned of an underground organization that might be right for me; it’s the Unitarian Jihad. Here’s the first paragraph of their manifesto: Greetings to the Imprisoned Citizens of the United States. We are Unitarian Jihad. There is only God, unless there is more than one God. The vote of our God subcommittee is [...]

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My outfits are never incomplete

January 26, 2005

My mother was horrified when she learned that Paul and I had adopted not one, not two, but three cats after our last cat died. Perhaps horrified is a little strong; she certainly was not happy. She is allergic to cats. While her allergy is not severe, her reaction to three indoor cats is watery [...]

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