(Note: This post is about pet loss and pet grief. As part of a grief management process suggested by some pet loss resources I’ve found, this is a letter to […]
Fly Free, Forever Pollywogs
Just a little update to the story I wrote about here. Our beloved Miss Pollywogs has gone to the Bridge. She fought like hell to stay with us. So hard […]
Broken Promise
My friend Robert and I were big fans of Omni Magazine, which in the 80s was the magazine for the young adults who would go on to fall in love […]
Mr. Steve
I had this friend, Steve, that I used to work with many years ago when I was still living in Southern Cal. We met in our mid-to-late 20s working together […]
Forever Pollywogs
This post isn’t actually about proto-frogs. It’s about a cat. A little black and white pixie of a cat named Polly, and variously called Paws, Sillypolly, Polly Wolly Doodle, Good […]
The mystery deepens
Not too long ago, I ended up getting my DNA done through AncestryDNA. I already had it done through 23andMe, but you can’t cross-upload and I wanted to be able […]
Family Mystery and Mythology, part 1
Note: This will be a multi-part post as it will involve research and information that is still being accumulated. Genealogy has been an interest and on-and-off hobby of mine for […]
Missing Pets
I just recently went through the experience of having a pet go missing for two weeks. That’s a specific form of hell, as anyone who has ever lost a pet […]
Not All Traditions
Ran across a meme the other day: Name a food you ate as a child that you will never eat as an adult. That one’s easy. Turkey noodle soup. Turkey […]
Shouting men
I work in a college town, that’s relevant to this story. This morning I walked across the street to Starbucks (as I often do) because our office coffee is terrible. […]