Recent Comments

1. over 1 year ago on Breaking Cat News

   Oh, man, did this bring back memories. When I was six (just turned) my parents let me and my little brother and equal aged cousins decorate a tree all by ourselves. They hadn’t realized we couldn’t reach the top of the tree, or the middle either. I couldn’t understand why they were laughing so hard when they came down to the family room to see our work. I’ve seen pictures of the tree, and I get it now…

2. over 1 year ago on Stone Soup Classics

   Quite frankly, after all the help she gave Joan, Joan and Wally should help out.

3. over 1 year ago on Breaking Cat News

   Anyhow my degree was in History (I was what was termed a “research rat” at my college, with half my tuition being paid for by doing research for profs). I had a minor in economics. I always laughed and said the minor landed interviews and the major got me jobs. The third question in was ALWAYS, “History, huh? Why?” So I’d talk about how it helped me with international business contacts, understanding cultures, meeting people where they were, building connections…and ended with Sir Francis Drake’s circumnavigating the globe for the greatest return on investment that anyone has ever made. By then, the notes had stopped being taken, conversation started, and I usually either got an offer or a referral to a “more international facing opportunity.” So, you never know!

4. over 1 year ago on Breaking Cat News

   Actually, I do want a portrait. I commissioned one years ago for my parents 25th wedding anniversary, from a snapshot from their wedding. I always thought I’d do the same for my husbands and my 25th anniversary in a few years (we are at 20, almost 21 now). Do you have a website?

5. over 2 years ago on Breaking Cat News

   Seriously, direct quotes from Pride and Prejudice…wow! Elvis is a great Mr. Dracy!

6. almost 3 years ago on Breaking Cat News

   Our family of five is working on it. Adults and oldest teen fully vaccinated, my younger teens have their first shots. Didn’t get them from the vet, though…

7. about 3 years ago on Luann

   I think the original saying was “The customer is always right in matters of taste or style.” If they want their meat cooked well-done…then so be it. If they want mayo on their fries, fine. If they want to buy a purple and pink fusha styled kilt three sizes too big, so be it. If they want the stylist to shave their head, fine. The saying was NEVER meant to abuse service workers.

8. over 3 years ago on Breaking Cat News

   I remember going to the Louisa May Alcott house with my kids, and being amazed that the Alcotts let May Alcott (basis for Amy in Little Women) draw and paint all over the walls. And she grew up to be a successful artist, even beating out Mary Cassatt for a spot in the Paris salon! She trained the man who sculpted the Lincoln Memorial. If she hadn’t died so young, I think we would be talking about the Alcott sisters…not just Louisa. So there is a long and distinguished history of painting on walls! Go for it! (And yes, the attic in our house is well muraled!)

9. over 3 years ago on Breaking Cat News

   I wish there was a new calendar. This would be perfect for October!

10. over 3 years ago on Breaking Cat News

    I had always heard (maybe someone knows for sure) that Dodie Smith’s original 101 Dalmatians was written as a parable, to explain the Kinderlift to British children of the 50s. These little puppies who were legally sentenced to death, their doggie parents who were operating outside the law to hide and save them, the community coming together, illegally, to shelter them. That amazing scene in the church, when the littlest puppy sees the manger scene on Christmas Eve…when the baby Jesus was being sheltered from death in the home of animals from the legal and deadly authority of Herod…while Jesus’ house is now sheltering the (legally bought) puppies from death at the hands of Cruella de Vil. Yes, that book was amazing.