I really did intend to make a real entry here today, but instead I took the time I wasn't working to go romping with the dogs in the snow. And got the best photo ever of Puck the Dog, possibly: But because Emma gets jealous, here's one of her too, walking …
While we were stuck in St. Patrick's Day parade traffic on the way home from grocery shopping, we realized that we adopted Puck the Dog exactly five years ago today. The anniversary is easy to remember, because we got stuck in parade traffic that day too. We still had a small SUV back then, and …
Cat in a hat in a box on a bench.
From Philip K. Dick's thoroughly charming author's note on his first sold story, "Roog": "So here, in a primitive form, is the basis of much of my twenty-seven years of professional writing: the attempt to get into another person's head, or another creature's head, and see out from his eyes or its eyes, and the …
…here today, though I'm technically meeting my BEDA obligations, so ha! There is lively discussion in the comments of both yesterday's post on chocolate and SF and the day before's on series. We had a visit from an excellent dog trainer yesterday, who shares our distrust of the Cesar Millan Be A Pack Leader Approach, …
Emma Explorador Pt 2Originally uploaded by gwenda I have completed hours and hours and hours of admin paperwork and gathering and such for the stuff that has to be mailed in at the end of one's final MFA semester… and my brain feels mushy. Also, hurty. (Evaluations, a complete bibliography of everything read for the …
Presidential pet photo gallery at the WaPo. Which is your favorite? I have a soft spot for Checkers, because he really got Richard Nixon to open up to those two zany girls.
The Triumvirate At WorkOriginally uploaded by gwenda You want to talk think tank? Eeevil genius? Yeah, me neither.
Best LOLCat in the history of the world: Yay! (With a hat tip to my in-house cute animal picture guru.)