Category: Artistic Creations

Squirrels are taking over the universe. Sometimes there are three or four at once chasing each other around my tiny backyard. Yesterday several of them leapt into my little peach tree and proceeded to eat all the blossoms off. Five minutes ago I heard a scuffle on my porch over there, five feet behind me. A pair of the devils was tussling right on the other side of the screen door, which had popped slightly […]

Here’s a Vizsla. I know a lot of people are staying in touch via telephone and Zoom, but what on Earth do they all have to talk about? Even those who are still working (and thus presumably engaged mentally, or at least being productive) must find it tricky, don’t they? My own days are so devoid of activity aside from daily rituals that I can barely think of a single topic to discuss during these […]

This just in: the toilet paper contest is over, and if your bets were on the Charmin Mega—with its boast that each roll is equivalent to four of the competitors’—you’re bound to be disappointed. Costco’s Kirkland roll lasted 7.5 days, versus Charmin’s mere 7.334. Elegant in my sugar-skull mask, I walked fifteen minutes through the grey morning to the farmers market again, arriving at the start of senior hour. I wonder if people there are […]