Ms. Jill S, late of North P______, MD, currently of South Dimwittery, tenderly made the sweater pictured within. She crafted it with all deliberate speed, congratulating herself on the fact that she finished in plenty of time to post it northwards to be there for the party at your parents’ home. She did [...]

There’s a group on Ravelry that has devoted itself to lolcat macros (of course there is - let’s not even pretend to be surprised, shall we?).
For some reason, this has gotten me digging into the flickr files. And then, I have to share with you. It’s a bad cycle, but I am helpless [...]

A Reader’s Manifesto.

Pssst.  Can we talk?

You know my human mommy has been running for about two months, right?  Well, she says she’s not in training for anything, but she is going to be doing the 2007 AIDS Walk in Washington.  She’s getting pretty close to her fundraising goal, but she’s not quite there yet (and if I [...]

Milo has entered The Age of Teeth.
Anyone who has raised a kitten knows that there is a time when everything - a challenge, a caress, the coffee table - is approached with tiny fangs bared. The fur of Dash’s tail probably hides a hundred battle scars by now, souvenirs of a tiny tiger flinging [...]

It has been a summer of cool days and low humidity (well, relatively cool and low - this is still DC).  It has also been a summer of drought - the grass has been brown and brittle for weeks, and the air has been dusty.  The stream behind our house has dried to a series [...]

I’m big on rewards. I like having things to look forward to, to have the sense of earning something, to cap an accomplishment with something that I will savor. Sometimes the treat is unrelated to the accomplishment, but more often it is thematically related, and sometimes even symbolic. For instance, if I [...]

John and I don’t get out terribly often. We’re homebodies by nature, with many domestic pursuits and interests. As a result, we end up not taking as much advantage of the many things the DC area has to offer as we think we “should.” (The shoulds and oughts of this type of thinking are particularly [...]

Once upon a time, Marie visited here and realized that I had responded to a comment of hers in the comments.  She had previously thought I hadn’t responded at all - she was expecting a reply via e-mail.  She wanted to know why I replied in a comment rather than an e-mail.  My rationale was [...]

So, there have been finished objects Chez Writingortyping.  It’s not just cute kittens and yoga around here.
One almost-FO is the front door.  A few weeks ago, John bought a screen/storm door whose packaging promised that it would install in six easy steps.  Um…  Yeah.  Right.  More like seventeen million not-so-easy steps, too many hours, actual [...]