The U.S. News and World Report Cover from August 7: Anarchy Growing Threat to Big Cities? Business at Bottom — An Upturn Next? New Defense Line in the Pacific More War or Real Progress in the Mideast Not All This Country is Tense, Troubled Here’s the bonus question: What year? … Continue reading →
For those of you not following on Facebook, Roxy’s kittens have arrived. Yesterday afternoon, she spent a little over four hours welcoming four little kitties into the world. She did a wonderful job and is being a wonderful mama kitty. One and Two came about fifteen minutes apart, then we … Continue reading →
Take a few minutes and go read this blog post. Take longer and read the nearly thousand replies to it. If you come back, great. If not, reading the post is more important. Go do it. This post will be here whenever you decide to come back. No rush. Do … Continue reading →
A little over 100 days ago, someone posted about 750words.com on FM. My writing has been sporadic at best lately. I checked out the site. The site author compared it to morning pages, but he does oh so much more. He keeps stats and he offers badges for achieving various … Continue reading →
I’m finally getting around to reading my electronic advance reader copy of In the Land of Invisible Women by Qanta Ahmed. Yes, it was published two years ago, but I didn’t have a viable way to read the PDF download (I don’t consider a computer screen a viable way to … Continue reading →
No, not more cats for the house, but we seem to have an “infestation” under the house. We’re on a major pathway between two possible “problem” houses for cats. One is our next door neighbor to the back who has a sort of a pet cat he lets live in … Continue reading →
I can deal with Roxy stalking Ajax. Ajax has problems with that, but I can probably live with it. What I can’t live with is a cat who does not always without fail use the litter box for litter box things (barring some reasonable, rare exceptions). She’s had a problem … Continue reading →
According to the date on the file, it’s been three years (!) since I last made changes to Thread and Ties. I just finished reading it from start to finish for the first time in at least that long — probably longer. Did someone come in and work on this … Continue reading →
In February, 2005, I had PRK surgery performed on my eyes to correct my vision. The surgery was successful even though I needed to wear the contact bandage an extra three days. My eyes corrected to 20/15. I did need reading glasses, but I needed those before the surgery. Less … Continue reading →
We suspected this might be the case when we adopted Roxy, but today I have confirmation. Roxy is pregnant and expected to be due in six weeks. This happens to new parents all the time, but I don’t expect most parents adopting teenage girls think it will happen to them. … Continue reading →
