You will love her

For I command it:

Ask your doctor or pharmacist

(This is what happens when I get the urge to draw….)

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Finding the upside

As you can well imagine, this past week hasn’t been the greatest one at stately Ricker/Plus-One’s-Last-Name manor. Accepting the fact that I’m no longer owned by cats doesn’t come easily. This is alleviated somewhat by the presence of the other Boris, who is now the lucky recipient of all my feline-oriented attentions.
On top of that, I [...]

Let’s not forget

…to wish a very happy birthday to A Bitch. Don’t ask me how old she is; I know, but one never asks or tells a lady’s age. (Oh wait, she went and told, so let me just say that she doesn’t look anything like her age, and she’s a whole lot wiser than many who’ve passed the [...]

“Au revoir, Natasha”

“No goodbyes, just good memories.
“Hailing frequencies closed.”

We will do anything to get our 15 minutes of fame

I cannot help but be endlessly amused that someone found their way to this page by searching for the phrase “shameless whore.” As it happens, I have an abundant sense of shame. I’m from New England, after all.

That’s not me, is it?

Whenever I read a rambling, bitchy tirade or diatribe on someone’s blog (no, I’m not going to link to the aforementioned tirade; that would be bad form), the first thing that comes to mind is, “Hon, step away from the keyboard. You sound like a shrewish harpie. And those frown lines are stubborn.”
Naturally, this being [...]

I know I said this blog wouldn’t be all about my pets

…but I’ve decided that my pets are too beautiful to be ignored.

“You’ve got enough here for a novel”

This comment came up in my writers group after the last story I finished reading to them. I tended to bristle at that at the time. The ending had problems, which they were great at finding and suggesting some possible solutions to. Still, I felt the story was better as a self-contained unit, though I [...]

Compare, contrast

People live in a place like Kirkwood for a lot of reasons. It’s a pretty suburb within easy reach of downtown St. Louis and most of the major attractions in the area. It has a good school district, a Main Street-type atmosphere in its business district, and it feels safe.  It’s the type of place [...]