Today has started out rainy - it may end up warm and sunny. Such are the vagaries of April.


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Each time we come from my house to my sweetheart's, I've been making sure we bring something along with us. Another box of books, perhaps, or (as yesterday) another bookcase. I find that the lovely wall of bookcases we've established in my writing room is nearly full already. Which reminds me that I haven't yet shown you photos of my new writing ( Read more... )

As most of you know, I have a cat named Kismet. With the upcoming move, it seemed prudent to move the cat a bit on the early side, to save her from any disruption as a result of the upcoming showings of the house and such. She moved yesterday, and spent the first hour or so in a low-slung, tail-down posture, checking her new digs. After that, she ( Read more... )

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Can it be otherwise, when it is sunny and mild outside, the dogwood and azalea are in bloom, and there's banana chocolate chip bread in the oven? I think not ( Read more... )

This morning, I am writing to you about my cat ( Read more... )

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Kismet is a troubled teen kitten. By which I mean that she's absolutely adorable and into everything. She has two modes these days: Play-at-full-tilt and Asleep. At the moment, the game appears to be a mix of tail chasing, toy wrestling and shadow pouncing ( Read more... )

The dictionary defines the word kismet as meaning fate, fortune, or destiny. There's a musical entitled Kismet, which set words to the music of George Borodin - there's an especially gorgeous quartet entitled "And This is My Beloved" based on the third movement of Borodin's string quartet in D ( Read more... )