The Differences Between Dog & Cat
I have one of each. I’ve had more than that in my lifetime, but this post is about the two horrible monsters who currently hog my…
Read articleDía De Los Animales Muertos
This week’s Prompts For The Promptless topic is saudade: Saudade is a Portuguese word that describes a deep emotional state of nostalgic longing for an absent…
Read articleAnatomy Of A Night’s Sleep
I have one cat and one dog. The dog is of average size, weighing in at 55 pounds. The cat is large, verging on extra-large, weighing…
Read articleTrue Cost to Own® (TCO)
This week’s Prompts For The Promptless is about true cost: True Cost is a term for the often-overlooked, comprehensive expense of something, including the time-related and…
Read articleA Guest Post By My Dog
Weekly Writing Challenge: Tell us about a character in your life. Write a post from their perspective, matching your narrative voice so that it sounds just…
Read articleThe Hound of Entropy
Anyone who’s read more than one post on this blog or has even glanced at the sidebar could probably guess that I’m a big fan of…
Read articleWounds That Never Heal
This post started out as something entirely different and morphed into this. A word of warning, it might make you cry. My mom is firmly in…
Read articleLife With Two Stalkers
I woke up with a sore neck today. When I say sore, I don’t mean a little stiffness. I mean unable to turn my head to…
Read articleThings My Dog Has Destroyed Part 3
Welcome to another edition of destruction a la dog. She’s a year old now. In other words, she’s an adult in doggie years and old enough…
Read articleThings My Dog Has Destroyed Part 2
For those so inclined, the first bout of destruction can be found here. The dog is nearly nine months old now and she is looking very…
Read article10 Things I Hate Part 13
1. Drunk people. I was the designated driver at a party a week or two ago. I had two drinks all night from 9pm to 6am…
Read articleThings My Dog Has Destroyed Part 1
I’m so confident that my dog will destroy more things that I’ve started this post with a Part 1. As I described in the post D’ya…
Read articleWell-Known Facts: Dog Edition
This edition of Well-Known Facts focuses on the dog and their relation to astrophysics. FACT: Dogs produce more poop than the volume of food that they…
Read article10 Things I Hate Part NEIN!
1. Homos. Not the Homo Sapien variety, but the language kind, as in homonyms, homophones and homographs. For example, the one used in the title of…
Read articleD’ya Like Dags?
I apologize for being so absent of late, faithful reader (I don’t want to assume that there’s more than one of you – even assuming there…
Read articleMaking The World A Better Place
What charities do you support, and why? Well, I’m unemployed, so I’m basically a charity myself at the moment. I’m living off of the kind donations…
Read articleMy Neighbors
Write a story about yourself, told from your neighbor’s perspective. I was overjoyed not to have a whole bunch of rabble-rousers next door. The people who…
Read articleA Long Day Of Nothing
She opened her eyes and saw the blurry, motionless, ceiling fan. At first, without her seeing apparatus and still hazy from the sleeping pills she took,…
Read articleSpring Off!!!!
I’m not opposed to kids. They come in handy for fetching things, better than a cat anyway, but seriously, general public, I don’t care about your…
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