…but MAN, the resemblance is scary (no, we’ve never even tried to put any of our cats on a leash).

I was sitting in the departures lounge at LaGuardia earlier this week, talking to my mom on my cellphone (quietly, I need not add). Suddenly, I said, “Oh my - there’s Ted Koppel.”
“Really?” Mom asked.
“Really.”
“Well, tell him I said hello,” Mom said flippantly.
Whoever was in charge of the knobs and levers of the [...]

Remember when I learned to spin? (Seriously - it’s okay if you don’t.) I have spun lots of fiber since. I have had people try my wheel, I’ve tried different techniques, I’ve skeined and stored yards and yards of handspun. I’ve even given some away.
What I hadn’t done yet is knit [...]

I mentioned in my last post that I had been watching a lot of Dog Whisperer.  I always hate it when I jump on a bandwagon - I tend to object on principle to buying wholesale into someone else’s world-view.  I also get a little irritated with the people who breathlessly gasp about Cesar Millan’s [...]

I listened to my new running playlist this morning on the way in to work, and realized another thing about it (and playlists like it in the past).
I start my runs (in general) with the dark, the sarcastic, the angry.  The first three songs on this new playlist are each, in their own way, a solitary middle [...]

I had to take a hiatus from running when I was dealing with the respiratory ick (and then a bout of flu - or something like it - does one really care what it’s called when one feels as if they were run over by a truck?  No, I thought not).  To celebrate my return [...]

Ever have one of those moments where you realize that you’ve heard about something for a really long time, and yet you have no notion of what that thing really is?  And that the thing you had heard of is something that, given your background, age, or proclivities (or all of the above) is probably [...]

This is a laptop, baby.

An unflappable double-laptop.