Our cat Malcolm, age 17 1/2, enjoys being vacuumed, although he’s a bit camera-shy here. (My son is wielding the vacuum here.) Usually, he rolls around in ecstasy (seen briefly in the video), making sure every part gets vacuumed. He often presents his head to make sure his cheeks are groomed. When much younger, Malcolm would dash [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Life’
November 5, 2009
It’s Grand!
We made a detour to the Grand Canyon on our drive home in September from California (Yes, I’ll be wringing posts out of that trip for some time to come!) It was well worth the four hours’ deviation from our dash (just ask a certain highway patrolman in New Mexico) back to Kansas City, even though we’d visited the [...]
November 2, 2009
Farmville on Facebook
I signed up for Facebook a few years ago to see what my children were doing at college. Yes, that sounds like spying…. Instant Messenger, MySpace, Facebook. They signed up, I signed up. (They weren’t sneaky enough to keep it a secret.) As soon as they moved on — it took me a while to catch [...]
October 31, 2009
California Bird Houses
I love bird houses. I don’t know how practical some of these are or whether birds actually live in them, but they certainly are cute. After seeing these, I’m inspired to build my own. I’m not very handy with a saw and a hammer, so maybe I’ll grow a bird house gourd.
The green bird house hangs on [...]
October 25, 2009
Ode to a McIntosh Apple
I grasp your smooth curves eagerly between my trembling fingers. Your skin is so brilliantly green, blushed with bright red.
You minx, how you tease me with your beauty, with the promise of your juicy sweetness. Are you ripe? I hold you to my lips. My teeth bite into your firm white flesh. I taste tartness, yet sugar melts [...]
October 15, 2009
Surf’s Up
I love road trips, especially when I only do twenty percent of the driving. In mid-September, my husband and I loaded up my minivan with some of the left-behind belongings of my daughter and her boyfriend and headed west to Huntington Beach, California. Laura and Ryan had moved there in mid-August, making the drive in [...]
October 15, 2009
Dancing Words
My friend Sandy is an artist. I always enjoy her take on her experiences at the art shows and fairs she visits in Kansas City. Click here to read her post “Fall Back” on her blog “Dancing Words”. Be sure to check out the video of one of Sandy’s art classes from ART-felt Learning at the [...]
September 27, 2009
A Greeting Card For Every (Ridiculous) Occasion!
As a fledgling greeting card designer, I thought this was an hilarious video. The end was particularly silly!
September 11, 2009
Spiritual Rez
I could hardly hear my daughter on the phone over the music.
She was at a concert, listening to friends in a touring reggae band. Finally I made out what she was repeating. “Can the band spend the night at your house?”
I swallowed hard. “Uh, uh. Sure.” Where would we put them? We’d just had some [...]
