Kara & Michael’s Blog

At some point over the Holidays, Michael and I were blessed with a new cat. It appeared to us on the stairway of our rowhouse and did its kitty thing of rolling over on the ground and rubbing against things to show us how adorable and loveable it was.
I just wanted to feed it, but [...]

When I was in Freshman English at a local community college, the instructor devoted a portion of the class to reading advertisements.
I don’t mean picking up a paper and reading through the classifieds. I mean, we studied advertisements, how they appeal to the audience, what advertisers are really selling us. I guess those skills come [...]

So Kara and I have discovered that our cat has strange taste in music. No, really.
We frequently get into situations where we’re annoying poor Inari: trying to snuggle with her, trying to pat her head, trying to make eye contact with her, etc. This frequently leads to me grabbing her and petting her while she [...]

Michael has demanded I post this picture of Inari in the blog. Picture this thing nudging you awake in the morning and try not to be a little terrified.
We’ve been getting a lot of bugs in the house lately – big old flies, little bitty wasps… Inari has been taking care of most of them. [...]

About a month after Michael and I got married, I told him I wanted to buy a cat as a wedding present for him. We went to the pound intending to get a full-grown cat but after bureaucracy bit us in the bum, we came home with a kitten.
We named her Inari. She is one [...]

The Washington Post frequently holds chats and publishes a column by veterinarian Dr. Michael Fox. He tends toward the holistic treatment of animals. If you’re like me, you just choked on your morning coffee or slim-fast. But not so quickly – his website of published musings shows how thoughtful he is. He’s a healer concerned [...]

Inari often does very irritating things because she is smart. Do not ask me how she does some of the things that she does because I do not know. But yesterday evening I came home and she had managed to get a Tupperware container of shortbread cookies open and pull out ONE cookie, only one, [...]

Michael has a philosophy on weight loss that goes like this, “Live like you are the weight you want to be, and gradually you will move towards that weight.” It makes sense, no? So yesterday, he asked if I would walk the 2.something miles (one way) to the dollar store with him. It’s an [...]

Last night, Michael made us a tasty pasta with arugula, mushrooms, spring onions, garlic, fresh oregano and crushed red pepper flakes. He sautéed all the ingredients minus the pasta with olive oil in a cast-iron pan, taking care not to sauté the arugula or oregano for too long. The arugula was only wilted, [...]

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, [...]