Author Archives: Kat
Lippe goes shopping
Lippe has recovered from his sniffles, and felt well enough to help with the weekly shopping. Our first stop was the pet store, to stock up on litter and treats. Then we went grocery shopping. The Wegmans store … Continue reading
Lippe catches a cold
Today, we wanted to take Lippe to the art gallery, so the three of us got in the car. Lippe offered to drive, but his feet didn’t reach the pedals, so he had to be content riding in my purse. … Continue reading
Notes for a future road trip: MJT
I love museums, especially natural history museums. The highlight of my day in Oxford, several years ago, was the Ashmolean, with its geological specimens, stuffed dodo (the model for Tenniel’s illustration in Alice in Wonderland), and other curiosities. While catching … Continue reading
Lippe is here!
Lippe arrived late this afternoon. Who is Lippe? It’s a long story. Several years ago, when I became aware of Twitter, I was eager to learn more. Wary of making a fool of myself under my personal or business name, … Continue reading
Before we know it
“Time passes. If we don’t play with our kittens when they’re small, they’ll be all grown up before we know it.” ~ Fiona Robyn, Writing Our Way Home Fiona was talking about the growth of her real-life kittens, Roshi and … Continue reading
Fear and trembling
Today was the first day of the Boar’s Head and Yule Log Festival at Third Presbyterian Church in Rochester, NY. Every other year, on the weekend closest to Epiphany, the church puts on an extravaganza of pageantry and music with … Continue reading
Always a beginner
One of my quote-a-day subscriptions recently sent this, from Thomas Merton’s Contemplative Prayer (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1969, p. 37): “We do not want to be beginners. But let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be … Continue reading
Third Sentence Thursday: Celebration of Discipline
From the first chapter of Richard L. Foster’s Celebration of Discipline: “The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people.” ~ Richard L. Foster Deep people? Who are they? … Continue reading
Capture a creature
Today’s blog post at Writing the Way Home includes a quote from Ted Hughes’ book Poetry in the Making. [I]magine what you are writing about. See it and live it. Do not think it up laboriously, as if you were … Continue reading
Does life need a Restart page?
A friend sent me a link to The Restart Page. It’s a collection of Restart dialog boxes from vintage computer operating systems. Each one has an active button that, when clicked, replays the entire Restart sequence from that OS. Cool! … Continue reading