Hectic and challenging times at work have kept me off here, as my primary posting time is usually during the day. That, and there has been little to nothing going on in my life that is worth noting at the moment in a forum such as this. That said, the hurdles have been jumped at work for the moment, and I have time to squander on the likes of you ( Read more... )

There is no doubt my old kitty Trudy is failing. I can barely get her to eat ( Read more... )

I haven't been posting. I haven't really felt like I had anything to say. A touch of exhaustion as I approach the end of the year has left me feeling a bit limp; not bad, mind you, but limp. My motivation factor is nearly a zero. End of year work projects have been keeping me running, and preparation for the holidays as well. Plus, after an ( Read more... )

It's not a cold, as my body has no aches or fevers (though I've never had a real fever in my life). It shouldn't be allergies, as I don't have those either (except poison ivy). Yet something did in my sinuses yesterday, and then today gave me a light cough. This is grumpy making, as I have to much to do to be wheezing and moaning. And it is ( Read more... )

Many years ago, in the PH era (pre-Hubby), I was a single guy on the scene in NYC. This was not as charming as it might sound to some of you. Oh, yes, there are far more gay men to hunt for a boyfriend among here in this city than in any other locale in the country, but that in itself causes a few problems. The first is that many men are ( Read more... )

I was outside my building when a woman strode by, on her way in. She had a haughty air, a walk and pose that conveyed the message "I am far, far above all you low-lifes." I studied her carefully, and realized, yes, in some ways, she was indeed "all that and a bucket of clams." But anyone who spent too much time in her company would likely suffer ( Read more... )

For some masochistic reason our three boy cats travel with us when we go up to the country for the weekend. They have been trained to do so since they were kittens, and once in the car are fine. The stage of preparation to get in the car poses different challenges, however ( Read more... )

We went to Montreal this weekend to celebrate the hubby's birthday, on a trip we arranged a while ago. I had to focus on making this a great weekend for the hubby, which is only due - he is the hubby, after all, and his needs have to come first for me. But in the back of my mind the entire time I was haunted by all that is going on for others, ( Read more... )

I'm not going to lie to you - the past few weeks have been quite challenging. But I think we are all sick of me acting like a borderline drama queen. So I will just be pensive instead ( Read more... )

The skin on my back is peeling in sheets right now, as though I had been exposed to a high dose of radiation. Which, in fact, I had been. On Saturday the crippled hubby made me take him flower shopping at Home Depot to finish the roof garden in Brooklyn for the summer ( Read more... )