HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

i hope yours is filled with delicious chocolates. we haven’t even had our usual lone trick-or-treat group, so i guess i get to eat all the three musketeers. here’s amy in her lovely self-portrait.  she does love that tooth-black stuff. before we went out...

WHAT ABOUT PAUL SIMON???

i started watching the nonstop coverage of HURRICANE SANDY yesterday on the weather channel, and earlier in the day one of the dozens of reporters getting soaked and blown around out there mentioned all the huge mansions owned by famous people, like jerry seinfield...

7:56 a.m. sunday morning, but it might as well be

the middle of the night.  in terms of tiredness.  my cup of lapsang souchong has had no effect on me so far. i was sitting here on the couch watching the news, which is all about the HUGE HURRICANE which is going to hit and cause much pandemonium everywhere, with...

and another sweet doggie is gone…

janice and garrick lost their funny, sweet dog Moon this week.  he was a really good dog, and they are heartbroken. here he is, earlier in the year,  looking so cheerful despite wearing a cone of shame. good dog. christine just adopted a dog, the first dog she’s...

BIG NEWS!

i’m doing another show!  after six years of sitting around not doing a show, finally, FINALLY i am doing one!  Gracetalk #5,  i’ll be at first night, at the hoogland center for the arts, with two shows, at 8:15 and 10:15.  hmm, how will i stay awake for...

halfway through october,

and yet i don’t even know how that’s possible already. here is dad with his BEAUTIFUL NEW KITTY! mom has been desperate to get a new kitty, shortly after fourlane died, but dad wanted none of that.  but a friend of amy’s had three beautiful, sweet...

so, if you happen to see me shuffling down the road,

in the (probably not-t0o-distant) future, wearing my red flannel jammies, probably munching on chocolate chips right out of the bag…please, point me in the direction of home. the mind, it is slipping away.  not really so gradually. last monday, randy and i went...

gizmo, he was a very darling little dog

gizmo died on thursday.  he had been sinking for a while, and on thursday he finally found some peace. the worst part of the whole thing was when the vet, who is very nice and kind, putting him to sleep, kept saying, “he’s not going to feel any pain...

tuesday morning

we went for a walk the other morning, and once again marveled at how the little bit of lake just off the woods is so dried up.  even when the lake is low, the ground is usually a marshy, muddy mess, not something we’d ever walked on. there’s so much grass...

crazy crazy crazy cat lady

the rest of the photos from the nice walk we had the other day. chester mostly stayed near us even though he wasn’t on a leash. and lester didn’t let the leash hamper him in any way. sometimes les looks like a little bitty kitten even though he’s...