Kara & Michael’s Blog

We had to rush Inari to the kitty hospital last night at 10:00pm. We had a candle burning on our dresser and she jumped up to take a look at it (we’ve had candles burning all the time, and she’d never taken an interest in one before). Before we could pull her away from it, [...]

In my struggles to find something interesting to do at work, I have mostly found myself perusing wikipedia. One day I killed by looking up every country I didn’t know and reading about it. Today, I was looking through animals on wikipedia, found myself looking at capybaras, remembered they had some at the National Zoo [...]

I consider myself a bit of a donut (doughnut) connoisseur. Maybe because I am so fat, maybe because I connect donuts to the era of my childhood where family and relatives would stop by or we would go to see them with donuts from local bakeries. No Dunkin Donuts for us, and Krispy [...]

Valentine’s Day is like my favorite holiday in the entire world.  I know I said xmas was, but it is tied with Valentine’s Day.
It comes in the middle of winter, when the weather is consistently dreary and all you want to do is lay in bed reading and drinking tea.  It comes to spice things [...]

Where I live (suburban Maryland), Verizon and Comcast are a well-established oligopoly that people desiring phone/internet/TV service are pretty much forced to deal with. I use Comcast for all three services, and whenever I sit on hold with them for half an hour or speak to a surly in-home technician, I find myself smiling and [...]