The Mysterious Traveler Sets Out

2013. What an awful year. I don't know if we're feeling "survivor guilt" or merely survivor exhaustion, but 2013 was a b...

Note: Despite the title, this is post is more about how to avoid replacing a refrigerator door seal.  Very few refrigerators made currentl...

One Monday in early February Mabel, our little black Bombay cat, collapsed. I thought she had an abscess, and asked Tom (who's a m...

An update on Smokey, who was my cat 10 years ago but has since chosen to live with a succession of elderly neighbors. I got an email today...

On the way home from a visit to a friend in Harborview Hospital today, I nearly collapsed. We had just stepped into the hospital elevator wh...

The fearsome heckler did not materialize at my workshop last week, but the Thursday-night switch to the far distant hotel triggered a chain ...

Last fall I was invited to give a workshop on websites at a writers conference on the East Coast. I accepted because this would force me to ...