The Catmage Chronicles
Andy thought he was going crazy when a talking cat showed up at his front door. He couldn’t have been more wrong.Goldeneyes is a Catmage – a cat with human intelligence and magical abilities. Andy is an eighth grader who is smart, impulsive, and trying to avoid the school bully at all costs. A prophecy threw them together. There’s just one problem: Goldeneyes can’t stand humans.The Catmage world is heading toward war. Goldeneyes and Andy must try to stop the enemy from getting stronger. And they must save a powerful Catmage who’s been kidnapped. For Goldeneyes, it’s personal. That Catmage is her grandmother.Andy and Goldeneyes must try to put aside their differences. If they can’t, the enemy will soon be too powerful to defeat…
Category Archives: Life
Memories fade; blog posts remain
I can’t stop reading my archives. The personal posts, the humor posts, a few of the news posts, but mostly, the old stuff about my life four years ago. Really, it’s fascinating. I mean, I know that four years ago, … Continue reading
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Unspeakable
This post was first published on January 12, 2005, during the time when I was working seven days a week. One of those jobs was temping for Kelly Services. Regular readers know I’ve been temping lately. One of my temp … Continue reading
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Morning snow
This was the view from my front door Tuesday morning. I really like my new home.
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It was a busy day
I drove up to nothern VA, came home, worked a couple more hours, ate dinner, and, well, have no energy to post. And there’s a new Heroes episode tonight. Plus, from about eleven o’clock last night until eight o’clock this … Continue reading
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The further adventures of Meryl’s germs
So, to continue from last week’s brush with cat scratch fever—I got over it, mostly. I was pretty much recovered by the weekend, except that now my allergy meds weren’t working. So I called the allergist and asked for new … Continue reading
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Starting them young
A conversation at my house last night: “What is this?” “That’s a McCain-Palin campaign button.” “President?” “Campaign button.” “Why do you have it?” “I voted for them. Why? Who did you want to win? Obama?” “No. I’m a Libertarian. I … Continue reading
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Surprises in babysitting
Earlier this week, a parent of one of my former students called and asked if I’d be interested in taking care of her son today. And not just for a few hours in the evening, but how would I feel … Continue reading
Tiggeritis
My eye started itching over the weekend. By yesterday, it was hurting and the right side was swollen. Went to the doctor’s this morning, and after about five or ten minutes of exam and puzzlement (not sinus, no fever, not … Continue reading
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Meh. Talk among yourselves.
I’m not up for bringing everyone up to speed on the day’s events. You can peruse the Ynet and JPost headlines if you like. I need more downtime. I borrowed the first season of Murphy Brown from my local library. … Continue reading
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The Boy and Cat show
Nate had a great time with me and with Tig, but we only have pictures of Nate and Tig. Nate used the catfish pole and managed to catch a big one. No, wait. Tig caught the pole. Or did he … Continue reading
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And still, they try to post their hate
Even changing to registered comments doesn’t stop the liars and haters. Liars, like the one who just claimed to be a former IDF soldier. Yeah. Like I haven’t heard that one before. I believe it as much as the ones … Continue reading
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Wading through the sewage
You have no idea the garbage I’ve been wading through this past week and a half, especially since I started linking to CNN news articles and getting referrers from there. I just went through two days’ worth of anti-Semitic, neo-Nazi, … Continue reading
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A moment of Monday joy
I would just like to report that I have never been happier to mistake the date for an appointment. The root canal is tomorrow morning, not today. Good thing I called to double-check.
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Rent-a-kid (or three)
So my big babysitting night was not nearly as frenetic as I thought it might be, and I think that’s quite possibly because I had only three of the four G. children. At the last minute, Nate went to a … Continue reading
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Former Jersey girl says:
I got this in the mail (thanks, Eric!) and had to share. You know you’re from New Jersey when…. You’ve been seriously injured at Action Park. Nope. Too smart to go there. You know that the only people who call … Continue reading
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