Gorgeous day in Athens, a blissful antidote to the snow and gloom that began this week. I had a shopping list an arm long, so off we went, my stalwart life-mates and I. So much devastation along our path, but then this lovely grove of Bradford Pear trees in bloom on Highway 29. Alas, saved the pet s...

Not sure if I've mentioned it on the blog before, but I will be making an (increasingly rare) public appearance at the 2009 Leather Leadership Conference in Atlanta, GA , scheduled for the first weekend in April. I am looking forward to this event with great excitement for several reasons. First, I ...

Things are still a bit touch-and-go around here. We've had more than a few outages, but happily they've all been of reasonably short duration since yesterday morning, so it's only been inconvenient for us. Many of our neighbors in the Athens metro area have experienced genuine hardship. Today's loca...

It's been quite a little ride these last 24 + hours. I may have celebrated the restored power a wee bit early, as we continued to have intermittent outages until about 2 hours ago, with things suddenly shutting down for minutes or hours than returning to life as suddenly, only to go dead all over ag...

I used to really love writing lists. Then I wrote so many of them about so many things that they started to feel strangulating. And the tool became the point. Luckily, I was able to go on a Time Manager......

If you follow me on FaceBook, you already know that we were gripped by a great poodle drama this past weekend.  Friday night, Venus (our mini poodle) started limping and seemed depressed; close inspection revealed a horrifyingly huge swelling on a rear paw.  As seems to be the rule rather than the...

Stranded in the living room and laptopping while Will cooked dinner, I let the TV run real-time v. TiVo time, and thus became a helpless consumer of myriad commercials. By the time Will emerged with platters of savory delights, I was able to give him a summary on what I had learned about myself from...

Does anyone here know anything about writing autobiographical sketches? I have to write several for fellowships/scholarships and I'm kind of lost. I imagine that it's something like a personal statement, but not quite sure. Should I leave out anything before college, or not? I have no idea. It's kin...

Some years, I've made New Year's resolutions. Some years, I have not.   I've discovered that it makes no damn difference one way or another: I'm no more likely to stick to a New Year's resolution than I am to stick to a diet plan (and there's more than a bit of overlap there....). In the end, it's ...

It's Christmastide once again, and as we get older Christmases seem to roll by very quickly indeed.  It's hard to get my head around the fact that this is my 51st Christmas in this world.  As Robert Frost said so perspicaciously, when asked what he had learnt from life after all his many y...