What Makes Me Laugh

So, Doug and I watched a documentary on the life of The Buddha on New Year’s Eve. Yes, yes, this doesn’t sound like the raucous party you attended, but honestly, it was a really good way to ring in the New Year and featured some great poets (Jane Hirshfield and W.S. Merwin). Anyway, it inspired [...]

When I arrived home from work last week Doug told me to “check the camera” for Cocoa’s daily adventure. High larious! I think the photos tell the story pretty well.

It was 2 a.m. and after four hours of telling Doug that I would turn off my reading lamp, “in a minute” I was finally asleep. Just barely. I was in that dream state where the concepts of flying, friends from high school, the color purple, and cows all seem to come together in a [...]

I’ve been thinking lately that Pavlov had a cat. Prior to his saliva-inducing, bell-ringing dog research, Pavlov’s cats were ringing his bell, making him get up in the middle of the night to tend to their every want and need and that’s what gave him the idea for his research in the first place (sixth [...]

So, the two armchairs that are new-to-us have been claimed by the cats. We had envisioned long winter nights reading next to the one air vent that blows hot air in our living room, but have been vanquished to the cold part of the living room by two animals that simply rule by cuteness. How [...]

Peaches is currently unhappy with me. I’ve been traveling a lot. Out of town for a wedding, for work, and now for a family get-together, she’s been lucky to get any quality time out of me this month. Doug has had to fill in, waving cat toys in front of her and Cocoa uselessly, getting [...]

I hate paying the bills. I’d much rather hide in the sock drawer. Or climb up to high places. Hunt in the snow… Or snuggle with my sister. It’s hard work paying the bills. It makes me sleepy. And a little grouchy. How ’bout you?

Frankly, I would rather have a root canal than take my cats to the vet. My cats would rather I have a root canal then go to the vet. They are not like my friend Leah’s dog who acts as if the vet’s office is the best doggy cocktail party he’s ever been to. Pant [...]

I’m resolving to do better with my blogging timeliness. Been a little behind, sorry about that. To illustrate my laziness, my cats agreed to pose so that you can see what a lazy bed head really looks like around our house.

The other morning I stuck my head out of the back door to call in the cats before I left for work and got a whiff of eau de skunk. Uh. Oh. I scanned the yard and since it was daylight I figured the skunk had just left us a little scent tag to say [...]