I'll make this brief. I've been bribed to feed a friend's cat for a week. I'm allergic to cats, and I think that indoor-pooping pets should be limited to birds and hamsters, and that cat people should take care of each other's cats and leave non-cat people out of the whole… Read full post »

I'll make this brief. I've been bribed to feed a friend's cat for a week. I'm allergic to cats, and that indoor-pooping pets should be limited to birds and hamsters, and I think cat people should take care of each other's cats and leave non-cat people out of the whole loop.… Read full post »

I tend to be a little self-paralyzed when it comes to being bold about making change. This might come as a surprise to friends who think I do nothing BUT run around making changes, like my home, my job, what captures my interest at the moment, and my daily activities which… Read full post »

In my post yesterday I mentioned the news about 533,000 newly unemployed people last month. Then I lofted some lame metaphor about being one of those unemployed drops of humanity in the surging sea of people. Here's your Sunday Experiment: what do 533,000 drops of water (preferably the specific… Read full post »

Today's Seattle Times headline reads "533,000 Jobs Vanish in a Month." My eyes dart right and left, seeking out these stampeding throngs of hysterical unemployed people, as I sit here using free wi-fi at the Edmonds Tully's (drinking a far-too-expensive mocha instead of a $2 drip coffee dosed with fr… Read full post »