A Cat By Any Other Name

We did not watch the stupid ball drop in Times Square, and we did not really do any sort of toasting at all, but it was still a nice New Year’s Eve. I left work a little early so I could get home in time to change before we had to head back to Sacramento [...]

Last night we had my parents over for dinner. I dashed home from work and swung by the produce stand on the way home to pick up a huge bag of green beans, and then tossed two heads of garlic into the oven and got the brown rice started on the stove and stood there [...]

We put Christmas away tonight. We packed it all up in plastic bins, nestling ornaments carefully in divided layers so they won’t be crushed; arranging and rearranging boxes of cards and wreaths and garlands and various other decorations so that somehow, some way, despite there being more of everything this year, they all fit into [...]

I am writing this while sitting in the most marvelous little chair. It is covered in deep plum plush and looks like a modernized version of an easy chair. Tucked underneath is a little footrest on wheels, covered with a pad of the same plum fabric, while on either arm are separate pieces that can [...]

I was right about the meetings yesterday. They both went on far longer than expected, and we did not leave for the airport until after everyone else had gone home and the office lights were turned off around us; until it was so late we startled the cleaning crew as we emerged blearily from the [...]

A few months ago I agreed to ‘teach’ a Sunday school class called “The Gospel According to Harry Potter”. It’s actually based on a book by the same name, and the gist of the six-week class will be to go through the Harry Potter books and discover just why they really aren’t the evil devil-worshiping [...]

Remember back in September, when I talked about this? It’s been a few months, and a few delays due to trying to coordinate two busy schedules, one of which includes the schedules of two busy little kids, but finally my friend and I hooked up and managed to nail down a day to get started [...]

Four years ago today I wrote my very first entry in this journal, titled “Waking up to green mice.” Naturally, it had to do with cats, because what better way to start a journal written by, and about, a bonified cat lover. Over the past four years the journal has undergone a handful of design [...]

Another Friday Five. What does it say in the signature line of your emails? During one of my stints as a traveling database code monkey one of my code monkey friends gave me the niftiest little program that would attach a random sig line to each email that I composed. I adored that program and [...]

Today started off too early, for which I have only myself to blame because I was a big slacker and did not do my final prep for week two of the Harry Potter class I’m leading at church. In my defense, when the leader’s guide arrived on Friday, I *did* immediately read through the whole [...]