a few months ago I submitted a tutorial to a little-big magazine in chicago on a lark. there was no way I would ever be one of the winners in the “first ever venus holiday craft-off”. I’m just not that good. so, imagine my complete “jump-up-and-down and scream a little silently in my head” suprise [...]

this weekend was made up of a lot of packing, a bizarro private party at barrymores with free yet not free beer, packing, moving things around, more packing, and lots of six feet under. somehow we consumed an entire pie between only three of us. i love making apple pie in the fall. i’ve been [...]

The kitties went back today. Somehow it feels more significant, and a little more sad, taking them back. They’ll be the last cats I foster here (though not the last cats I foster at all). For the longest time, I worried about Felix. He walked all stooped over and feeble, reminiscent of a very elderly [...]