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Oh. My.
Please don’t laugh.
As a favor for my family, I offered (aka was tricked) into caring for a cat, a huge moody orange beast that no one loves except my mother.
Long story short, the thing couldn’t quite make it to Holland to live in progressive societal bliss with the rest of the other kitties (two [...]

So we’re mindlessly staring at the TV for the third hour now, watching as flight after flight from Heathrow is cancelled due to fog. Already 40,000 people are stranded in the airport. My sister, Kristen, and her husband, Chris, are due in to Amsterdam this afternoon if they ever make it off their layover in [...]

I pulled past Harrisonburg’s mall today. Couple dozen people were standing, shivering outside one of its entrances. I watched from a stoplight as cops came and started ushering people away from the doors.
A bomb threat? Gas leak? Fight? Wasn’t sure. So I pulled in and started fishing for my cell phone. Gotta call the [...]

Thanks for all the great feedback on this new experiment of mine. (Check the previous post for details. Basically, it’s an attempt to shop for only real, true essentials for a month. Food, minimal gas, medicine, cat food and toilet paper as of now.)
So far, it’s been easy. Probably too easy. I haven’t felt deprived [...]

Thursday was my birthday. And on that day, and on a whim — for no reason I can comprehend, not yet, at least — I all at once decided that I won’t buy anything unnecessary for a month. Food, toilet paper and medicine make the cut. Anything else I think I need I’m not gonna [...]