Hello dear sweet blogland. How sweet to feel the need to visit you again! I wish I could say I’ve had the need to blog, but I haven’t. For one,…
Happy 235th, dear America. You know what independence means to me? It means not cowering in fear. It means coming out of the shadows. It means understanding that I am…
One Hundred Eighteen/ThreeSixtyFive: Spring Underfoot, a photo by Madame Meow on Flickr. Do you know what a reciprocal birthday is? It’s a little thing I kind of made up to…
Today, fifty years ago, Yuri Gagarin was awesome. Like, literally: awesome. Awe-inspiringly, jaw-droppingly, out-of-this-worldly awesome, and I can’t even begin to imagine how crazy and frightening and thrilling his one…
Six years and one day, have I been blogging in this corner of the Internets. Sometimes, it feels like it never stopped being spring in my mind and in…
I happen to think that birthdays are special, but in a greater sense– not just in the let's-throw-a-big-bash sense. More and more, I also happen to think that birthdays should…
AC, originally uploaded by Madame Meow. Happy birthday, dear adoptive country. You are loved. _______ Right now, as Monsieur Meow reads Herr Meow a little book about America's birthday ("Daddy,…
Apparently, it's been fifteen years since I've graduated high school, or so the idle tongues tell me. ________ Back sometime in the middle nineties, I remember cruising down a street…
AvoDiptych, originally uploaded by Madame Meow. …so you can see why "Cinco de Mayo" is a catchier cognomen. Anyhoo, I do like Cinco de Mayo, and it's primarily because it's…
Amaryllis (Hippeastrum) Petals, originally uploaded by Madame Meow. If you're at all into plants, you may be lightly wondering why I'm posting a picture of an Amaryllis on April Fools'…
A Daily Dose of Zen Sarcasm! 