September 2005

  • Friday Cat Blogging

    They just are photogenic, aren’t they? My cats are equally cute, but if you are in the mood for making such determinations, try: And for other weekend entertainment: Friday Ark I And The Bird Carnival of the Cats Carnival of the Dogs Sweet dreams. Continue reading

  • No Snapshot Poem . . .

    . . . so perhaps a dream will do: I have recently moved into a shabby apartment. People keep coming in — poor people, homeless people, mentally ill and physically disabled people — mostly women. They get in no matter how many times I lock the doors and windows. They are like moths, they are… Continue reading

  • Seeing Things

    [It’s a sprinkler head.] Continue reading

  • Caffeine & Gasoline

    Two stories on tonight’s news seem, oddly, connected. President Bush chokes out the conservation word, and a caffeine-laced drink is being marketed to four-year-olds. I write this to try to identify that connection I feel. Common sense, and the lack of it? Only now does the Leader of the Free World discover what his parents… Continue reading

  • Snake on the Path

    I’ve now been on Cymbalta for four weeks, and I have, basically, two states of being: sleepy, or asleep. There is also drowsy, dazed, and dizzy, but those seem to be substates of sleepy. I’m too bleary to tell if there are other effects. My doctor wants to give it another two weeks. So I… Continue reading