Benny is in denial
Benny is a very jealous boy. I picked up this tiny, pitiful creature last week. He was wandering around, crawling with fleas and covered in scabs, fur all gone from the […]
Benny is a very jealous boy. I picked up this tiny, pitiful creature last week. He was wandering around, crawling with fleas and covered in scabs, fur all gone from the […]
Before I had this fancy blog, I had a little blog called Sun Comes Up and We Start Again. Enrique was just mentioning it the other day. I thought I […]
Some day this house will feel way too quiet. In some ways, it already does. Today, I am trying to appreciate and even relish the hysterical loud barking. My Sophie girl […]
Benny’s barking still has the power to shatter my sense of stability… when that sense is particularly shaky! One of Benny’s favorite times to bark is when I’m on the […]
I guess what I should really be writing about here is how I’m feeling about my 18-year-old kitty, Sophie. I started worrying about her death right after Mama died. I […]
I’ve been thinking about an article a friend sent me from Elephant Journal about the importance of sadness in everyday life. The idea that one could, and indeed should, feel […]
In 1999, I moved to Washington, DC — well, Silver Spring, Maryland — to go to grad school. I was pretty ambivalent about the move and that stressed me out. I […]
My mom had a cat, Smudgy, who decided one day just to move to another house down the street. She would come over every now and then (her sister, Sooty, stayed […]
We are home and Benny is barking again. For him, everything is “back to normal.” Does he remember the Grand Canyon? The Painted Desert? The petroglyphs? Does he remember the […]
I feel like writing, but I have a competing need to HIT THE ROAD! We are in the last stretch to get home. I feel very disconnected right now. Disconnected […]