This Website Needs A Makeover.

I changed the layout and I’m loving that, but I’m just not feeling the color scheme.  Or the header.  At all.  I’ve been messing around all day trying to come up with something new.  Since it looks the same right now as it did “all day” ago, obviously I’m drawing a big fat blank.  All [...]

Just When I Think I Have No Tears Left…

… here comes a condolence card from the veterinary office that tried to save Jacques from the coyote attack.  It’s signed by the whole staff, and little Jacques’ pawprint is stamped on the back.  I don’t even have words.  Lots of tears, but no words could ever adequately define what I’m feeling.  They didn’t even know [...]

Rest In Peace

This is a little tribute to our beloved dogs, Trixie and Jacques, who left this world today.  Every time I think I don’t have any tears left, a few more trickle down my face.  Like now.  I’m just so sad.
I keep remembering when I brought them home from the animal shelter.  When I first saw [...]

6/23/09

Technically it’s 6/24/09.  It’s 3:30 in the freaking morning, a time I prefer to reserve for pillow hugging, blanket snuggling and epiphanies-of-whatever-sort that play themselves out in my dreams.
3:30 in the morning, and I’m doing none of those things. I’m sitting here on the patio in my jammies with pain the likes of which I’ve [...]

A Work In Progress

This domain name was a Christmas gift to me from my son, Jeremy.  I’m not sure whether he was trying to torment me in some subliminal way or simply trying to gently nudge me into the 21st century with my own “web presence”, but either way he was successful (***yanking out my hair… ouch***).
Please cruise around [...]