Over the weekend we acquired a kitten from PAAW – the Pet Adoptive Alternative in Warren. After Zeus died, I wasn’t sure we’d be a two-cat home again, but I knew Doug and Loki would let me know if and when they were ready for a new friend. I left it up to Doug, figuring […]
My weekend in slices: Saturday Night was was Skating Night at BonaVenture Family Center, which is really just a Pee Wee Rave without the E. The boys wanted to go skating. We’d done the educational thing, we’d eaten a heavy lunch, we’d taken naps, so you bet, let’s kill that stored up nap energy at […]
(there are probably more than a few seamspeople, but I wanted to throw as wide a net as possible) This is my Dad. He retired from the Detroit Police Force in 1996. I wear this badge I pilfered from my mother’s jewelry box many years ago. It has his badge number. My dad used to […]
About a week ago, while cleaning out the garage for the installation of a new door, my wedding dress was unearthed. Unfortunately like everything else in the place where I live, there are holes where there should be solid construction, and water from years of leaks did terrible things to the lace and satin and […]
(if this looks familiar, it’s because I post a version of it every year) It was 17 years ago today that Douglas Stormer married MontiLee Points in Las Vegas, Nevada. We had saved up our money for over a year, planned two and a half days on the train, three days in Vegas and one […]
… unfortunately so did the tumor on his kidney. Our Zeus, the 24-year old Old Man, may not be long for this world. At the vet today, Doug was told of a large tumor on one of Zeus’ kidneys, the x-ray couldn’t tell which one. It’s five times the size of his heart. I’ll give […]