My boys turned 11 yesterday (Feb 15, 2010). I can’t believe that I’ve had them for so long…
Rowan and Lasher are brothers, and I rescued them from the SPCA way back in 1999. Growing up I was always allergic to cats and couldn’t be around them without sneezing/coughing/etc. But I began noticing that I wasn’t [...]

My dad recently had a hospital stay to get a pacemaker installed. He’s fine (hi Dad!), so this post isn’t about him, it’s about hospital food.
I don’t make a habit of being in the hospital, but I have been to one a number of times in my life. This is, however, the first time I’ve [...]

Today is my mother’s birthday, so I thought a picture would be fun…

I should also mention that my dad’s birthday was 10 days ago, and so a picture is also necessary .

Happy Birthday parents!

If you had to pick one word that sums up the whole of 2009, what would it be? ‘Recession,’ perhaps? ‘Collapse’? ‘Despondency’?
Well, according to one American dictionary, it’s actually ‘unfriend‘.
This pleases me. How much better does it get when ‘unfriend’ becomes the New Oxford American Dictionary’s 2009 Word of the Year? I think that really [...]