From the monthly archives:

April 2006

Dinner is cancelled

April 29, 2006

It was either a pill or a piece of candy. Or it was Donny’s missing eye. I was hoping for the pill or candy. If it was the eye … Well, Mitzi the cat had it and was swatting it around the room as if it were a pinball and her paws were flippers. She [...]

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The porcelain urns

April 9, 2006

The sound it made when it broke proclaimed the sudden turn my life would take. Though not sounding anything like a starter’s pistol it managed to convey the same sense – begin. Now! Through the window I could see the sky graying with clouds. The air surrounding me was becoming thicker, heavy with increasing humidity [...]

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