It’s been fourteen years.

I’ll rescue them, but four is the limit. In the (hopefully far distant) future, when it’s time to adopt another cat, The Honorable Mathematician gets to pick. It’s his turn. The professor in my clinical behavior class at school said that the official “crazy cat lady” limit is over six cats. I still have a…

Things I have recently begun to wonder about: 1. Why does The Cat always settle down for a nap directly behind The Human’s rolling desk chair? 2. Why, when The Cat settles down behind the aforementioned chair, does The Human never notice The Cat is there until impact? 3. Why does The Cat always act…

I spend little time on the web these days. When I am online, I’m usually playing Hexic or looking up medical stuff. Journaling has become difficult. It isn’t that I have nothing to say. Quite the converse: I have too much to say, and organizing the jumbled thoughts I have on a daily basis daunts…

February 8th I had a small argument with the stairs to my office. The stairs won, and I blew out a small and rather useless tendon in my left leg. No big deal, except that it landed me on crutches and a cane for a few weeks, and turned my leg the color of week…

Poetry Mining Company Dissolved by Elizabeth Farrell Now war has evolved into smart bombs, clean kills and all the other oxymorons or should we say dissolved into turning away from the innocent’s cries and the screams of an earth laid to waste. Maybe Native Americans had the answer when they sent their chiefs into battle…

Wednesday I started the ultraviolet therapy. They’re taking me up really gradually, so the doses I got this week were really short. A few things I hadn’t actually thought about until we got started. One of them had to do with protective wear. Although I’m getting full body exposure, there’s a few areas that we…