Magnetic Poetry

Being naive, I googled “oriental vs. Asian” to see where I had gone astray. I hate unintentionally offending anybody; I prefer any offensive remarks to be painstakingly planned. My first hit was: Model Minority: The Guide to Asian American Empowerment. Until this very moment, I had been quite unaware of either the “left-wing-politically-correct-thought-police-mind-control” or the…

One of my neighbor’s car alarms has been going off intermittently for the last half hour. It doesn’t last that long, perhaps fifteen seconds or less each time. But it’s so damned insistent – a false sense of urgency that keeps coming back, like that itch in the middle of your back that you can’t…

I met a woman in vet school who has become a good friend. She was the member of our class that kept me from being the oldest person in our class (I was 41 when we graduated, she was 42). During the stress of exams (in other words, all the time) we used to half-joke…

I can only assume that you have not been following the Kitten from Hell Saga since it began in August of last year. The last five months have been devoted to an ongoing struggle for me to out-think this kitten. It isn’t even easy to predict her next targets. She has figured out how to…

my world had not yet been turned on its ear. Pardon this entry. It is the maudlin musings that have been dwelling and building deep within me for a year now. I try not to let them out to exercise too often. But today, this once, I will allow them to taste the air and…

Thanks to sweetstar1974 for bringing Moonriddengirl’s entry to my attention in which she mentioned this self test:Inner Self Test. I’m suspicious of these suckers, but it never stops me from trying one out! Your profile: Chairman. By completing the list of questions, you have indicated the aspects of your personality which, in your opinion, are…