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Today my darling fixed us peanut butter on English muffins for breakfast.  He smiles sweetly as I take a bite, then he makes me laugh and snarf peanut butter....

EVIL!

My husband and I were watching a tv show about a comatose patient stranded in an icy outpost.  The brilliant Dr. House, using an video link, orders the patient's boyfriend to drill a hole in her skull to relieve brain pressure or else she’ll die. The situation is frankly horrifying. As the boyfriend positioned a whirring drill over the patient’s ( Read more... )

This morning, the kid was packing for a trip when I asked if he packed extra socks. "Sure," he said, as he grabbed a handful of mismatched socks and tossed them into his luggage. "But Pat, those socks don't match," I said. "Who cares?" came the reply, "No one's gonna see them. They're just gonna be covered by my shoes."

Chuck Close
Artist
"The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who'll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of ( Read more... )

Saturday was fantastic.  Busy yes, but worth it all.  It meant the world to us that so many folks drove literally many hundreds of miles for a day trip to 12th Night just to see Elias elevated to Laurel.  We can't thank you all enough, but damn if we don't try! Thank you to Master Steffan & Lady Elspeth and the hospitality of House Silverwing. ( Read more... )

Ever wonder what it would be like to enter a waterfall made of snow? Well I got to find out on my commute home Friday. I was cruising south on I91 at 70 miles an hour on bone-dry road around noontime, feeling pretty lame for skipping out on the office Christmas lunch party.  Then I turned onto the Merritt Parkway Route 15 for the second half of my ( Read more... )

Winston Churchill:  If you are going through hell, keep going.

Autumn in New England - sounds beautiful, doesn't it? And now that the last of our yard cleanup is done, I can honestly say that damn, that was hard work!  I am so tired and sore right now, you'd think I'd been trying to give my kitty her meds for the past six weeks, not merely raking and blowing leaves.

Don't get me wrong, I do love autumn. I love ( Read more... )

Yeah, I know, there are thousands of cute cats on the internet. But this one is really unbelievable:

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