You asked for videos

By popular request, here’s a video of the cat demonstrating his ability to stalk and kill any local wildlife foolish enough to pass through our yard. (Obviously, not a video for the squeamish.) The video does not include us shrieking, because we’re starting to get just a little blase about the fact that [...]

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If the cat could tweet

If the cat could tweet, here’s what he’d have to say about last night:
20:31 Ants all over my food bowl. Is mom serving bugs for dinner? #
20:32 Mom took food away. Not good. #
20:45 Mom spraying stinky stuff all over the floor. I just want food. #
20:46 Other mom [...]

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Our cat, the mighty hunter (not a tale for the squeamish)

S here; on Friday afternoon, I took the cat out in the yard for a little excursion. (He’s an indoor cat who goes outside only under close supervision.) We were hanging out near one of the bushes, when suddenly something moved in the garden just inches away from the cat. Instantly alert, [...]

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Signs of maturity

Last week, M came up to me and asked, “Mom, is there some day that you can either bring me to school early or pick me up if I stay late, so I can make up the Spanish quiz I missed due to the orthodontist appointment?”
This completely blew me away for a number of [...]

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Technical difficulties with communion

It was a communion Sunday at church today. The pastor intoned the ritual “The bread of life. Take, and eat.”
Well, I don’t know where the bread came from today, but it was stale enough that I couldn’t help but whisper into M’s ear, “The bread of life is very chewy today.”
He [...]

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Gay pride parade

We all went in to the city to the gay pride parade today. M was a little less than thrilled about this, because it meant:

He couldn’t spend the day playing with his friends.
He couldn’t spend the day surfing the internet.
He had to contemplate human sexuality while standing only six inches away from his parents.

However, [...]

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Nevada

Nevada doesn’t get an exclamation point in the post title because it’s going to offer the second-class status of domestic partnerships rather than full gay marriage. But it’s still worth cheering them on with an updated map.

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New Hampshire!

M has been on a real kick lately reading about “alternative history,” and he has taken to drawing his own alternative history maps. Every time he does, one swath of our country plus a section of eastern Canada is labeled the United States of New England. USNE is definitely supportive of gay marriage.

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