Luckily, I am having a white sand Christmas.
I have, so far, read ‘Gone, Baby, Gone’ and ‘The Last Town on Earth’, a lovely book about a town that quarantined itself during the flu outbreak in 1918. I am (re)starting Anna Karenina, and then I will head towards another pile of serial killer novels. Lots […]
Here she is, even scrawnier than she looks in this photo. I am trying to rehydrate her, so she gets alternately water and watery milk (along with cat food). I’ll buy kitten milk for her too, which is better balanced for cats, and higher calorie.
I was sitting on the couch holding Conrad Black (the unincarcerated kitten version) and Eva-the-unfriendly starts meowing outside. I know it’s Eva because no other cat in this house meows so loudly. Sister, I say, go let in Eva. She doesn’t like Eva and claims she will run away when she sees who is opening […]
I just read a book about Nefertiti and her sister, along the lines of Margaret George’s biographical fiction (is there a better name for this? I am too lazy to look it up). And I realised how much I enjoy this genre, especially about people I don’t know much about. Help me find some other […]
So my cat seems to be gone for good. I am very upset. Distraught would be a good word for it.
Appropriate responses to this post are all along the lines of “I’m very sorry”; inappropriate ones include “I’m sure she’ll come back”, “why didn’t you do [whatever]”, “have you considered trying [something else]”, “she’s […]
Tonight, my 14 year old sister, after I had made both challah and sugar cookies: “Oh shit, can we eat bread?”
A few moments later, she explained the story of chanukah: Moses was making bread and didn’t have enough bread and he had to use oil instead, and then the electricity went out and instead of […]