Anne's Blog

     My sons are grown. At one point, I had 3 boys at home under the age of five. That seems like a million years ago. I must have been busy and sleep-deprived often.  The more things change, the more they stay the same. I now have 1 dog, an almost 10-year-old Chihuahua, and two cats. I don't have to be at work this morning . . . or do I?      First, my son leaves for work. Our dog loves my son more than me so, when he is home, the dog is with him. The minute my son leaves for work, Yoshi comes in my room to get in bed with me. The only problem is he is little and my bed is not. I have to get up, pick him up and put him on the bed with me.  Then, our one cat, who has to be special needs of some sort, has her morning jealousy fit. Yoshi sleeps right by me. Well, the cat has to get in on it. She moves herself right next to him and stretches one of her front paws out to touch my shoulder. Yoshi hates it when the cat lies basically right on top of hi...

 These oranges from SF are always a risky purchase as stated in a previous post.  Currently, I am eating one that was worth the risk. And, as I eat it, I am overwhelmed by still vivid, powerful memories of sharing.

     I fear I am observing an emergent, disturbing trend. Over the Holidays, I had an unexpected 3 days off in a row. I did something I haven't done for a long time; I binge-watched a show on Netflix. I watched both seasons of " Stranger Things". I started on Christmas in the evening and stayed up until 4am watching Season 1 in its entirety. Tuesday, I took a break from it and, then, on Wednesday, I watched all of Season 2. I loved it. The only thing I hated was the cat being eaten by Dart, one of the many weirdly-shaped, flower monsters. Why did it have to be a cat that died?      Then, today, I went to see "The Shape of Water". The director is one of my favorites and the trailer I saw appealed to me. In it, a woman and an amphibious creature fall in love. She even continues interacting with him AFTER he eats one of her friends' cats. Ummm . . . Red Flag behavior. Show him the door pronto. For me, this was almost a great movie but it was marred by gratuit...