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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

  I wake up to the sound of glass shattering in the kitchen. It’s 3 a.m. and I know immediately that it has to do with the cats. I try to keep them off the kitchen countertops, and they are banned when I’m cooking, but it’s kind of a futile effort when I’m not looking. The [...]