Music and Cats

Yesterday after work, Paul and I left our house and walked the five blocks to our neighborhood junior high to vote in the Washington primary election. We could’ve signed up a while back to vote by mail — our county is one of only two in the state that still has polling places — but […]

Did I mention, at any time during June or July, that I intended to post every day during those two months? No? I guess it slipped my mind. Not really, but it didn’t seem terribly important to me to write about it… and I might not be doing so now, except that I don’t have […]

The email appeared in my inbox when I booted up my computer this morning. It came from a college friend on the east coast; its subject line read “Randy Pausch.” I was afraid to open it, and when I reluctantly clicked on Randy’s name, I found what I’d feared: the message contained only a link. […]

I have no idea whether chickens dream, but I’ve been dreaming of chickens. Ever since the coop tour, my daydreams have been of black and white bantams and statuesque auburn chickens, coops and runs and that empty, mostly shady corner of our back yard. And eggs, fresh organic eggs.
I’m not just dreaming. I’ve been […]

My hands look the way that I imagine Lady MacBeth must’ve thought hers looked: stained dark red in places, particularly around the fingertips. Oh, I’ve scrubbed them, but the spots just won’t come out.
Tonight, at the same time that I baked some halibut for our dinner, I put the beets from our CSA […]