A new stre manager decided to get tough - on kitties.

You can choose. Always.

Can you teach an old dog new tricks? Methinks you CAN...

Can you teach an old dog new tricks? Well, this old dog thinks so...

Coolness can be found anywhere. And I do mean - ANYWHERE..

And then there was the time Mom added a most unusual ingredient to the turkey..

..and then, there was that holiday meal where Mother added a practical, but most unusual ingredient..?

When my old cellphone breathed its last, my first thought was 'dammit.." Then I got still, and imagined something different.

...I will always wonder, but never know for certain: what if Earle had chosen another way to 'face the world'..what would he have been like? Still the old movie buff? Still the drinker? Still a man denying his real self... RIP my friend. You were loved.

I think of Philip often, and with a fond kind of sadness. Imagining him sitting alone, in a cloud of cigarette smoke, his cat Ninotchka curled up next to him on the sofa. Old movies were his favorite companions. The screen never judged - never talked back. He lived his own old film, on the real life screen.