My people like our Christmases dark, especially when it comes to the movie portion of our celebration. An all-time favorite Christmas Day screening was Quills, starring Geoffrey Rush as the Marquis de Sade. Two years ago, Black Swan was my favorite Christmas movie. During the past week at my mom’s, I read Gone Girl (Marriage canContinue reading “Movies that make you believe in God”
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Give doggies the gift of mental stimulation
I celebrated Christmas with my babies this weekend because I leave tomorrow for my traditional Los Angeles festivities. I showed a lot of restraint by only buying the kids one present. To Share. Am I stingy or what? Since it’s so dark, wet and cold around here, I’ve had to find creative ways to keepContinue reading “Give doggies the gift of mental stimulation”
Is it December yet?
Happy to see we weren’t the only ones getting our Christmas trees last weekend, even though Thanksgiving came a little early this year. Also tickled to find a dog blogger across the country who has the same tradition as we do: Taking the dogs to the tree farm. Our tradition goes back to 2006, when IsisContinue reading “Is it December yet?”
Howloween Horror: Death by Undercoat
The instrument of your death is familiar, always just under the surface. As it spreads, you grow accustomed to its coating your furniture and car upholstery, gathering in tumbleweeds on the floor, and surrounding you like an aura. You feel like Pig Pen from Peanuts, if he owned a German shepherd and instead of dirt,Continue reading “Howloween Horror: Death by Undercoat”
Lessons from St. Petersburg
When you’re used to visiting cities the scale of Florence or Prague, you look at a map of St. Petersburg and think it’s an easy walk from your B&B to the Church of our Savior on Spilled Blood. It is not. Take the metro. I’d forgotten, but that was the advice I gave in aContinue reading “Lessons from St. Petersburg”
Mia’s first birthday (as far as we’re concerned)
A year ago this weekend, we met an angel whose muzzle was grayer than I expected. My first thought upon seeing her was, “This isn’t the dog for us.” But she hopped into our car so willingly that she instantly was ours. She changed our lives. We were still pretty much in a pit ofContinue reading “Mia’s first birthday (as far as we’re concerned)”
A love letter to Rob and Disneyland
Rob loves Disneyland. I grew up in L.A., so Disneyland always has been as familiar to me as the county fair. We discovered Disney’s California Adventure, the theme park next door, on our first visit to Los Angeles together. Since then, we’ve been to the pair of parks in Anaheim a bunch of times andContinue reading “A love letter to Rob and Disneyland”
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Boxing Day
And Rob still hasn’t opened any presents. He gave me one of mine Thursday before I left. I opened all of mine from my mom, etc., on Christmas Eve. I was supposed to get home last night in time to open presents with Rob here. Nightmare air travel stories are so trite, aren’t they? ToContinue reading “Boxing Day”
Kari Neumeyer 