#VennDiagram omg the old torments come back... though I have to say sets and subsets came naturally to me at first, as did fractions, believe it or not, the flipping of numerators and dominators (wait,

#Patches, Patches, Showing off your silky underside, You may look, but don't touch you tease! I love how you lumped the chickens together as one pet unit. @manorvillemike might find it harder to regard

Wait, what...? More quarantine coming our way?? LOVE the theme of purring cats, this time with a surprise twist: the purr baby drools. Coincidentally, Bobi the Bad has been sneezing all week - esp in the

She is a character you must revisit, for sure. The crabby old lady is someone most people overlook but never underestimate her. :)

We need basements and attics - parts of them can be finished, but bare cement floors, cool and sometimes slightly damp underfoot, give us space to do things we musn't do in the "finished" rooms

Raj, I'm so sorry your mom has to fight lung cancer (my sister with Stage 4 stomach cancer is suffering horrible side effects from chemo, so she's promised to try the Fasting with Water Only Before Chemo

#HEA, Happily Ever After - my favorite kind! Clever story, with shades of my favorite fairy tale hero, Puss-in-Boots, who outwits the ogre. Love the narrator's voice, too, with the "of course"

What a wicked, fun story! This: It used to be that she and her kind would turn these horrible princes into frogs, but the princesses had actually started kissing them to return them to their natural state!

what a great anecdote, @myjob -- working when everyone else is partying - but I'd say you chose the "better portion" and I love the image of gold in your hands (as opposed to the hangover and

I gave up on trying to be invited to holiday gatherings, or even creating my own. No one ever seems to be receptive. You too??? The smartest, most insightful, creative, and entertaining people I know are

A treasure in our midst goes unnoticed, unappreciated... people should be competing for the honor of who gets to have Stacey at their New Year's Eve party! The invites should pile in you should be debating

Attics - I love attics, I dream of attics! Unfinished, with wood beans exposed, the bones of a home, the top story, the place of potential. "Finished" attics are like finished basements, requiring

Love it! My 3 pieces of cast iron never get used. I store them inside the oven. Every single time I bake, they come out for a few hours, taking up space, then back into the oven they go.... I think I've

"As the funeral passed the market square, such a smell of fish was in the air..." Oh Senor Don Gato was a cat On a high red roof Don Gato sat He went there to read a letter, Meow, meow, meow

Raj!!!! How have I not been seeing you around Hive for so long? of course you know the healing talents of cats! you're that awesome. Gotta go find your Hive wall and start catching up....

What a great way to start life in the womb: hearing and feeling the rumble of a purring ginger tom! We should all be so blessed. :) As for the other brother.... sniff! .... alas, no vibrations to resurrect

It'll take more than a tuning fork to fix us. Send in the purring kittens! Ok, not a haiku, but mechanical objects - scientists seeking to create a purr box with the same frequency as a cat purr! - oh,

Thank you for the mention! I really need to revise that post and focus on the LESSON LEARNED part, but the news of my sister's diagnosis was just too recent, too raw. Just overhwelming. The time to eat

Thank you, and my heart goes out to you and your sister and all her family.

YES Thank you! My mom, accepting her Biblical "lot" in life, anticipating a better lot in her next life in heaven - "In my Father's house are many mansions; I go to prepare a place for you"