Usually, we've left LA for New Mexico by now, but we're waiting for Moth to be seen by her cat dentist again in order to be given (w...

I still find it strange to be on the cusp of Christmas and everything to be so green and leafy in many places, including our front yard.  I ...

Seen on my ride home: a second floor balcony Christmas door wreath and bicycle parking, on S. Hoover St.  I'm not sure why I find this s...

  In some intangible way, this stands in for me today - dessicated in spirit after a long graduate studies directors' meeting, and wonde...

... as seen from inside the kitchen window.  If there's one thing that grows in the rather shady light of the kitchen windowbox, it'...

Gramsci is, of course, adorable, right down to his little white paws.  But when I am trying to finish off the first triage-ing run through o...

Alice's retirement celebrations have meant a wonderful few days: tonight, out to dinner with a very good friend (who made some of the be...