Do you love words? New words, Olde wordes, long words, esoteric words, foreign words? Do you love to read (and collect) quotes? Do you love to play with language? Shoecabbage is a syndicated comic panel by Teresa Dowlatshahi and David Stanford. It's all about language and languages (especially lesser-known and endangered languages). I just discovered… Continue reading

Barkeater Lake is a new strip by Corey Pandolph, featured on comics.com. Barkeater Lake follows the exploits of Delores Tanzini, of Brooklyn, N.Y., who decides to give up her crazy hectic life in the city for a quieter, saner existence. When she moves to a small town in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York,… Continue reading

Are you done? Have you started? 🙂 I'm wondering if the reason that my email lists have been sooo quiet today is because many people are off somewhere glaring at IRS forms.. Continue reading

A writing group I belong to recently discussed Spirit Guides and Totem Animals. An Animal Totem is an important symbolic object used by a person to get in touch with specific qualities found within an animal which the person needs, connects with, or feels a deep affinity toward. You can have several animal guides through… Continue reading

Today is the first Sunday in April, the official "Spring Ahead" day. It's also one of my very most favorite days of the year. We lost an hour today — not really lost so much as put in the bank. We earn a lot of interest on that hour; that one hour from an April… Continue reading

(This is, of course, a Very Good Thing in a vacuum cleaner 🙂 When I met my spouse, Rich, he had an Oreck vacuum; we kept it going for years. Finally, I decided it was well past its prime. Without really thinking, I went out and bought a new Oreck (XL) to replace it. (I… Continue reading

(This is, of course, a desirable trait in a shredder.) It also chews, chomps, engulfs and devours, and all with far less noise (at a much lower pitch) than we expected. Continue reading

  Spring is sprung With blossoms bright Tulips pink And Lilacs white Perfume sweet Upon the breeze Green and leafy Grow the trees Spring is sprung The days grow long Birds rejoice In trills of song Seasons come And seasons go Autumn's frost And Winter's snow Spring's my favorite Time of year I'm delighted That… Continue reading

Your colleagues no longer ask how your weekend was. Instead they ask how your cats are doing. People at work have stopped offering you their lint brushes. They realize it's hopeless anyway. When you get your latest roll of film developed, there's not a single human being in the pictures. You have more cats than… Continue reading

The inspiration for this essay came from a comment on the Purple Ink list group, to wit: I dream in colour when it suits me. To which I responded, "Does this mean you also dream in black and white when it suits?" And then I was inspired to write this: Continue reading