David's India
When I lived in Detroit, Michigan, my ex-boyfriend turned me on to lots and lots of great ethnic foods: Szechuan, Thai, Japanese (we...
Supplements
Okay. I’ll admit it. I let my dog do something that most people would find disgusting. But I consider it the ultimate recycling. I let...
Dunning-Kreuger
I was talking with a friend of mine about a person we both worked with once. I’ll call him Steve. Steve had been rehired to the same...
The 2017 Eclipse
I didn’t think anything of the eclipse. I knew it was going to be total in the ever-growing town of Corvallis, but it wasn’t really on my...
Bon Appétit
For the first time ever I got to eat something recommended from a restaurant by Bon Appétit yesterday. But first. The four of us (me,...
Tunnel of Love...or Treats
So we have this neighbor who lives behind us. Her name is Tammy and she just thinks that Ursus is the sweetest most special dog in the...
Izzy's Antics
I called my mother today and told her what Izzy did last night and she thought it was the funniest thing she had heard in a long time. I...
Izzy...Izzy...Izzy
I used to watch those commercials where an entire family is chasing a puppy around the house to get a slipper or whatever away from it. I...
Holidays with a puppy
We had to scale down our tree this year, although we still managed to overdo it because the top of the tree scraped the ceiling. We knew...
Let it Snow!
Today was the first day it snowed this year. It usually happens at the beginning of November but, with the NEW normal, things aren't...