November 6, 2009

Weekend in Erie

October 31, 2009

Like a vulture in the sky

I’m reading submissions to TC for our 2010.1 issue and got a cover letter that states that the following work is free of the graphic sex and vulgar language in so many stories today. I felt like looking around and doing the “Who do you think you’re submitting to? She who conservatively uses “fuck” about [...]

October 19, 2009

Jedediah

His name is Jedediah. Technically his name is “Jed” but as you may have guessed, we like having another alternative as his name.

Don’t let the sad eyes in the photo fool you. He’s currently humping his bed.
He’s a licker. I have to wear long sleeved shirts (and change my shirt at least once a day) [...]

October 14, 2009

The invisibility cloak

Harry has disappeared.

A week ago Sunday he slipped out when Zoe went to call Hawk in for dinner. Usually he would come up to the front door soon after but he never did. On Monday Hawk & I realized neither of us had let him back in. So we looked around for him to no [...]

October 4, 2009

Little pink houses

Holden & Zoe

Originally uploaded by edenza

The recent documentary series on national parks shamed us into finally visiting the one right here in our little town: Allegheny Portage Railroad National Park.
What’s that? Well once upon a time it took almost a month to haul anything from goods to passenger from Philly to Pittsburgh. The state, like [...]