Nursing Buddha

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Sometimes cereal is the most perfect food. Perfect in a way no other food can be. Oh cereal, you are swell. Too bad we won’t know each other long as most of your entire box is now in my belly.

Oh Thanksgiving leftovers, you are a magical prize of awesome. I spent about two hours today making soap. I’m using a new mask to minimize my exposure to some of the more powerful essential oils. I love this look. After soap, I turned into an absolute sloth and napped most of the afternoon with Fred [...]

I’m thankful for: My family, for their love and good company. My happy marriage. The health and well being of my loved ones. Our gainful employment and secure homes. The time I am allowed to share with people (including kitties) I love. It’s beyond precious. I’m also stoked and a little bit of a preening [...]

In the middle of the night, we lost Ethel the indoor kitty to a very brief fight with cancer. People are all different when it comes to animals, but in this house, we are all about big love and we take this sort of thing hard. Ethel was an excellent kitty, excellent in the way [...]

I’m sick. Ethel the indoor bulemic cat is sick. I will get better. She will not. That is the crapshoot of life. Emphasis on crap.

Today The Man turned 41. Ssshhhh, I’m not supposed to tell anybody that.

I took two of these guys from my mom’s house this morning. When she wasn’t looking. Without asking. For shame!! But delicious.

I have new vitamins. I hate my new vitamins. I gag and choke on the light-colored one.It’s covered in some kind of anti-swallowing material.

We drove home. We left behind tall buildings, free breakfasts, overpriced fancy grocery stores, and affordable Swedish furniture meccas. At first, it’s a sad parting, because I know back in Savannah we don’t have so much to take for granted. But the closer we get to home, the happier I am to be advancing toward [...]

Ikea is a deeply scary place. Deeply wonderful, deeply scary. It’s exhausting to just stand in the doorway. The endless progression of prefab showroom living places is designed to create a vertigo-induced spending spree. Because maybe if you buy all of these boxes and put them together, your house will somehow gleam and glow with [...]