When we were kids, my dad virulently hated cats. We had a few unfixed, feral cats in the neighborhood, and he took a certain joy on dumping water on them to chase em away when they started their mating songs. Not sure why he disliked them so. But he did. Then a few years back, […]
Anyone who has met me realizes that I have no patience for unnecessarily complicated things. It always blows my mind how humanity seems to think that if we make something as complicated as possible we somehow improve things. I firmly believe in simple and straightforward. As my life progresses though, I find I am in the minority. So doing my duty as […]
Since I am not one who ever does things the easy way, I find myself frequently struggling with “the man”. It is my firm belief that bureaucracy is the worst thing that mankind ever had the misfortune of creating. Even the word itself is impossible to spell, thanks to an abundance of unnecessary letters. My life these days is […]
I am not one who lives by schedules. I rarely even know what day of the week it is, let alone the actual date. My dad was always a bit like this too. Of course since I am currently not working, and dad has Alzheimer’s … it is that much worse. The days start to […]
It has been my experience that the older a person gets, the more stubborn they get. My mother for instance. I have been have some legal problems with my driver’s license (if you are really curious take a look here). Mom had just received an update from the car insurance company. You know one of those ones […]
Since mom is apparently psychic (at least when it is most inconvenient to be), she seems to think that everyone else is too. She is notorious for starting a conversation in the middle, assuming you have a clue what she is talking about. Or she will be upset because you did or did not do something, when she never actually expressed […]
Alzheimer’s is a rough disease, especially on the family of the stricken. But as with any other misfortune we encounter, it does have its humorous side. Learning to appreciate the humor sometimes evident makes it easier to ultimately deal with the sadness of it. And it is this bit of humor that often inspires an anecdote or […]
Gracie is an older cat. She is very set in her ways, but can be very affectionate … when she wants to be. She used to be a wanderer, but has now set her territory within the house and rarely strays from it. It is possible she is Squeak’s mom; he defers to her and she […]
