Crazy Math Genius

Yeah, seriously. So change is inevitable. Right? That is how the old maxim goes, and generally I have found that to be one of the major truths about life (if there is any such thing as truth that is, truth being so relative). Ah, there I go, waxing philosophic. Prepare yourself for more of the [...]

Neuroses of the Cat

I finally have confirmation that cats take after their owners (i.e. my cats take after my hubby and myself). I have suspected it for some time. Beyaze (my boy kitty) has a heart murmur just like my hubby. Both Hera (girl kitty of course) and Beyaze are overweight (ahem) and they are both sweet and [...]

Releasing the old

This is something that is very often difficult for me to do. I tend to cling, hang on for dear life, or otherwise just stick things in the closet (sometimes literally, sometimes figuratively) in case I need to pull them out and stew over them..ahem, I mean use them in the futre. It is one [...]

Finding my balance

I thought the herons were gone for the summer. The yellow-crested night ones that had been visiting my backyard. I had not seen them in weeks, and I imagined them on their way, migrating somewhere else. Yesterday after a big storm, they reappeared…happy as clams, hadn’t gone anywhere. This is a reminder to me that [...]

teensy happy things make a mountain of joy

As has been indicated on several different occassions in this blog, I have a propensity for negativity. It is not entirely my fault you know. I come from a long-line of negative nellies (and yes I still love to engage in ancestor blame on occassion so there). This past Monday I was presented with a [...]