So I sat down today to do a bit of blogging for the first time in almost a month…
And then this happened. Man, it’s hard to type this way. But to bring you up quickly to date… blogging has been light in part because…
Wait? What happened to my Caterpickles?
You may have noticed that Caterpickles looks a little different today. After seven years of using the same WordPress theme, I decided it was time to…
Caterpickles Central Update: Our time in Chicago is winding down
Caterpickles Central is packing up shop and heading west again. This time to Northern California. Moving day is in mid-September. Posting will be spotty over the…
Five years gone already?
It struck me this week that I’ve been writing this blog for five years now, and I thought an interesting way to close out this final Monday of 2016 might be to look back at the top posts of each year so far.
We interrupt this blog for a writing day
The Nine-Year-Old has a day off from school today, and she asked me if she could spend it having a writing day with me. We’ve got her typewriter set up opposite my laptop n the dining room table. She even has a story assignment, and an important lunch meeting. It’s the Caterpickles version of Bring Your Daughter to Work day.
Oops! I went on a blogging vacation and totally forgot to tell you…
So embarrassing. As is my habit here at Caterpickles Central I am shifting to a super light blogging schedule for the month of August so that…
Caterpickles Central has become a construction zone
Somehow I had failed to appreciate the extent to which remodeling the bathroom next door would affect my office. See that black screen under the dust…
Wordless Wednesday: Summer’s End
My Facebook feed is flooded with back to school shots of kids in backpacks, my cat is suspiciously calm, and Tigery’s once more stationed at our front window. School…
My year so far….
Flu. Norovirus. Migraine. I am well now, and oh so thankful for it. Will get back to blogging next week after I catch up on one or…
Mad Lib Spam
Normally, I just skim the comments that end up in my spam folder and delete them without thinking too much about them. I do this, because…
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