Violence, Tears, and a Returning

I’ve thought about blogging on the violence in the Middle East… my great sense of sorrow… I just can’t seem to get past this overwhelming sense of futility…. of the cycle continuing… of the endless suffering… endless hate… I just don’t see it being resolved until the conversation moves away from the past… the “who … Read more

Ode to Topaz

Our cat Topaz on desk

I wrote this on December 11, 2005 after the traumatic loss of our cat. It was the end of a few weeks of thinking we just needed to pay for her thyroid treatment and she’d be OK. But we only had her home for a few hours when much to our horror, she quickly slipped … Read more

Trying Again

Hmmm, well I’m not sure if I haven’t posted because I didn’t want to admit that the whole training thing didn’t work out. Although I’ve noticed that I’m not the only blogger who has failed to consistently post on their blog. Since my last post there have actually been a number of things that I’ve … Read more