Straight From the Hip

I probably shouldn't have eaten dinner before I went shopping for shapewear the other day.  For the uninitiated, shapewear is specialize...

Whenever we have a few minutes to spare, I like to play a 20-question type game with my students.  I'll give them a category (animal, pe...

My neighbor has an orange and white tabby cat and every time I see it, I think of Tiger, the first cat my family ever "owned."  Ti...

No, I haven't forgotten you.  Nor have I fallen off the face of the earth.  It seems I have been temporarily (I hope!) abandoned by my M...

I got really busy after my last post but I figured I'd have lots of things to write about in the upcoming months; the holiday season is ...

Mitchell Boyd, OL, #76 My mastectomy was just over a year ago and though I know that my body has been changed significantly, for the mo...

Minka the Russian tortoise and Chestnut the box turtle have a common wall between their enclosures.  A few months ago, I started finding Che...