One angrily refuses to play nice, hides under the bed, silently plots a plan of attack. The other looks on, clueless, lost in thought about when his next meal of wet food will be.

Truth be told, I love and hate this time of year. Love because warmer weather is right around the corner, the days are longer, and things start coming back to life. Hate because I have to do taxes (hallelujah those are over and done with), and because I inevitably have to start thinking [...]

Taken at my parents’ house. I love the flowers that grow there every year.

I love these pink flowers and the way they dangle from the stem.

And hello there, pretty purple flowers!

Don’t they sort of look like they have faces? Reminds me of the flowers in Alice in Wonderland.
And we all know [...]

Who is H. Goldfish?
He is a survivor. Born and raised to be a feeder fish, he was “rescued” at my school’s Spring Carnival one sunny day in April 2004 (has it really been that long?!). He then survived nearly 2 months of college student-style neglect and endured the 8-hour car ride from my [...]

“And yet, and yet, in these our ghostly lives,
Half night, half day, half sleeping, half awake,
How if our waking life, like that of sleep,
Be all a dream in that eternal life
To which we wake not till we sleep in death”
— Pedro Calderón de la Barca, “Life Is a Dream”

Maybe I have it all backwards. [...]