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It has been several years since I participated in National Blog Post Month or NaBloPoMo. I published a post every day during November this year. Particularly challenging this November as I navigated a fine line between disengagement and sanity. Sanity did not always prevail. Several posts were deep dives inward, exploring my traumas and a […]
I had a delicious turkey dinner from Bistro-to-Go for lunch, planned holiday decorations for the Fort Faulsey colony, and have my blueberry muffins ready to go for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. I finally put flannel sheets on my bed. All in all, a good Thanksgiving Eve. For my #NaBloPoMo contribution, I pulled together a […]
In no particular order, the books that have changed me. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch, Aleksandr Solzhenutsyn. Read this in AP English. The precision he used to frame the atrocity of Stalinism in the events of one simple day took away my breath. Eventually, I read everything he wrote. Why I was […]
It is 9:19 PM and I’m without a single thought for today’s NaBloPoMo post. I’ve done cats, cars, mental health, Simon and Garfunkel, a Q&A with the Assistant Secretary of Health for the US Department of Health and Human Services, Thanksgiving, reviewed two shows, previewed another, and more. I invoked math, then railed at the […]
When someone might be flirting with you or might just be a really nice, thoughtful person with great attention to details. Does it matter? Just appreciate the moments that a really nice, thoughtful person pays attention to you. Crush, respect, lust, attraction, distraction, blah, blah, blah. Why worry about subtext, something I am both terrible […]
Crap. It is Sunday at 8:30 and I haven’t posted yet. I cannot break my #NaBloPoMo streak on day ten. And you don’t want to read yet another post about cats so soon, I’m sure. My favorite week of the year is Thanksgiving week. Don’t get me wrong, I am aware of the horrors of […]
I can’t decide if it’s a sign of the times or simply dumb luck. Burned the index finger of my dominant hand on the icing of a Pop-Tart fresh out of the toaster. Ran cold water. Google “wtf do I do now.” And here I sit with my finger swathed in petroleum jelly and generic […]
November distribution starts tomorrow. We have enough to give each caretaker 12 pounds of dry and 16 cans of wet. If we can rally to generate 160 more cans today, each caretaker will receive a full case. A case means one can almost every day. You can use our wishlist or go rogue and shop […]
November is an intense month. Sad anniversaries of dead loved ones. My mother’s birthday (today,) The fun of Thanksgiving meals. Occasional snow flurries. Lingering leaves hanging tightly to their trees. The Season of the Sticks? So why not set a personal challenge -again- to blog daily? November is National Writers Month, the closest we’ll get […]
We are still very much learning cat folx skills. We’ve been caretaking for a colony since 2017. We’ve been fostering since May 2019. We’ve fostered 28 kittens. All have survived and flourish in adoptive homes. All experienced illness requiring lots of vet visits and care. Late, late nights and early mornings. Some came to us […]
