“I put an ant farm in my office,” she says nonchalantly as if ant farm were synonymous with table lamp or pencil sharpener. “They’re such hard workers. I look at them and they motivate me to work.”
I’m all for having a productive work space but for me that usually means a cup of coffee near...
Yearly Archives: 2008
Ants and Balloons
Kitten
We call her kitten. She’s not a kitten anymore but it’s a name that stuck. Kitten was addition number 5 to The Cat Palace also known as mom’s house. Mom has several children who find lost kittens and hungry strays to live with her. She has also adopted (against her wishes) cats that could no...
Passion
Today’s Guest Contributor is Johanna! Johanna grew up in the Chicago suburbs and eventually made her way to Seattle to start her career in the airline industry. She currently lives in Denver and threatens weekly to quit her job and follow her passion. She has a deep love for animals; especially the ugly un-housebroken kind....
Wild One
You can’t make her do anything. Don’t bother suggesting there might be a better way. The moment you tell her “no” is the moment she commits to whatever it is you don’t want her to do. She’s the wild one.
She’s the one with natural beauty. She doesn’t care much for expensive haircuts or makeup. In...
Aphorisms With Your Coffee
We go out to breakfast nearly every weekend morning. I don’t know how we got in this habit but our day simply doesn’t begin until we’ve chosen the perfect spot and sipped our first cup of bad coffee. For a couple that doesn’t eat bacon or sausage, rarely eats eggs, and are total coffee sobs...