Irish. I am told it is called Irish, not Gaelic, even if the linguists call it Irish Gaelic, because it’s Irish, goddammit. Noted. The song my grandmother used to sing was a terribly mangled version of Did Your Mother Come From Ireland? Grandma liked Bing Crosby. The fact that I have now both kissed the […]
I have returned safely from the Emerald Isle, and holy crap, I don’t even know what to say, but being me, I will now expend a pile of words to say it. First, there’s the color. To call Ireland green is to commit glaring sins of omission. It is the sort of green reserved for […]
Hound ate my white chocolate baguette and then had the nerve to act like she was starving. *grumble* But true love is ordering your wife a pizza remotely from across the country because you have the app and presets already installed and she is still moving through the stages of baguette grief. The travel app […]
I dreamed last night that I was back in high school and of course there was an enormous science project that I had to do in a class that I only vaguely remembered. I was in the class and everyone was discussing what sort of project to do–chromatography of various liquids or determining whether some […]
Someday I hope to travel without a week of sickening dread that I will do something egregiously wrong in the process. I figure if I can just do it ENOUGH I will come to accept it as a grand adventure, instead of a labyrinth of half-understood public transit options punctuated by moments of breathtaking scenery. […]
We have been providing what amounts to hospice care for Emily the cat for so long that this isn’t a huge traumatic event–we’ve been expecting this every time she’s had a flare up since 2014. If this is the final one, then we’ll be sad, but I think we’ve gotten most of the mourning […]
I made a couple coloring book pages and put them on Etsy to download I don’t know if I’m doing this right but here they are and they are squiggly ALL THE SQUIGGLY BITS