Cats in sinks

This is too cute. Photos of cats in sinks. Found via Stupid Evil Bastard.

A matter of liberty

On BlogSisters, Media Girl has a well-reasoned essay on reproductive rights as a liberty and 14th amendment issue, rather than a privacy issue. Go read.

An ugly legacy comes to an end

About 30 miles from here, the last remnants of Aryan Nations’ leader Richard Butler are fading into infamy. While the rest of the country saw the abstract evil of the nation’s most identifiable racist, this backwater of the Pacific Northwest didn’t have the luxury of that distance. We’ve been on the front lines in the [...]

Mixed blessings

The cardiologist called yesterday to give me the results of my stress echo cardiogram. It was mostly good news; my cardiovascular fitness was well above average, my endurance very good, my heart recovery time excellent with no “episodes” recorded during the test. I’m quite physically fit after the diet and exercise this spring and summer. [...]

Drink up: it’s good for you

Tall triple latte, skim milk, no syrup. Before I was forced to decaffeinate, that was my standing order at Sips Espresso. A recent study by researchers at the University of Scranton says that might just have been good for my health. They discovered that coffee is the leading source of antioxidants–thought to fight cancer and [...]

Letting go

Writing has been hard this month, this past week in particular. So the blog has suffered. I just haven’t been able to summon up the emotional energy. August has been a month of letting go and many “lasts” which I’m not handling too well. I’ve moved Julie to Arizona, and now this coming week, I [...]

Skirting the rules

Yesterday’s mail brought Bits And Pieces, the newsletter from Central Valley High School, where my son is a sophomore. Along with schedules, bus information and hot lunch prices, it contained a list of rules for school dances. For security reasons, non-CV students are only allowed at half the sponsored events, and then the guest’s name [...]

Friday dog-blogging

Racing through the yard playing fetch with his teddy bear.

Testing, testing

Yesterday morning I had my echocardiogram and stress test. It was fairly straight forward, actually; they hooked me up to half a dozen wires, then did an ultrasound of my heart. Then came the stress part, walking on the treadmill to get my heart rate up as high as possible, then repeating the ultrasound. The [...]

I am now fulfilled

(humming “I Feel Like A Woman”) There’s just something about shoes …. Last night I found my dream shoes. 3.5 inch heel, peek-a-boo toes, leather with suede trim, fire engine red. They’re a little too big–smallest size was a 7–but I can fill in the gap with heel grippers. Best of all, they were half [...]

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