Eyes to see
That Petit Prince was on to something. In addition to being into foxes long before they were trendy, he knew: “what is most essential is invisible to the eye.” Consider Peggy Sue our Little Princess.
Abundant Sunshine
There has been violent meteorological talk around these parts recently. People are talking of insurrection. People are talking of roasting a certain errant groundhog. Fortunately, people are also talking about the ultimate forecast: abundant sunshine. Or Sunshine, as the case may be.
Bonne chance
It’s painfully obvious – sometimes on a painfully-hourly basis – that we are made of dust. But do we forget that we’re also made of stars? Our Bonnie lass will not forget.
Waltz of the flowers
They tell me it’s been a “mild” winter. They tell me the globe is warming. They tell me a lot of things. I tell them: bollocks.
Luck be a Levi
He’s not green. He doesn’t do jigs. But if St. Patrick’s Day means anything at all, it means luck. On this luckiest of weekends, Levi‘s covered in four-leaf clovers.
The angel Gabriel
Gabriel is the only honest-to-goodness angel of the angels. When the litter of four heaven-faced kittens arrived, our initial plan was to name them all after actual angels. But “Uriel” seemed a little too urinary, and somebody complained that “Raphael” was better fit for a turtle of the teenaged mutant ninja variety than a tabby […]
Twitchy woman
Ages of sages haven’t been able to answer this question: why does your eyebrow sometimes twitch? Or, if your name is Sadie Rosenberg,* why does your entire little grey face squiggle with spasms?
Out of the Bleu
Think carefully before you answer this one. At your twenty-year high school reunion, do you want to be immediately recognizable? Before you answer too swiftly, I present you a cautionary tale from Feta and Bleu.
Simply the Bets
Scientists talk about the Law of Conservation of Matter. Scientists talk about protoplasm. And scientists talk about other scientists (you know they do). But nothing that scientists talk about is as interesting as Betsy. That’s why we’re going to talk about the Law of Conservation of Cats who are Unable to Keep their Tongues in […]
Then there were three
Riddle me this: what do you do when you’ve exhausted the word “awesome” and need something stronger? We’re gonna have to start coining our own verbiage here, folks, because the adopters just keep getting more magnificent.