Exhausted from all the gift unwrapping and scoping out scraps that fall from plates, Santa dog takes a very small break.

The Party Source puts on these cigar tastings most every Tuesday at the Beer Sellar. Not sure how new changes in smoking laws will effect this event, but for the time being it’s going on strong.

A dog in a holiday sweater during a birthday party.

Hung out at my friends’ place. Took a whack at a board game called Quelf, which is surprisingly weird. It’s like a combination of Cranium and the dare parts of Truth or Dare. Or weird like having mini powdered donuts for appetizers. or weird like having a magazine with Lindsay Lohan in the bathroom. (These are [...]

I guess it was January when Zan (pictured above) crossed my virtual path. (Thanks Merlin) That connection turned into hearty admiration for her words and her photos. And that turned into the discovery that she was from Oxford and knew Wendy’s mom from a summer program way back when. So when she was in town [...]

That is to say, Thanksgiving on the day of Thanksgiving. But it was proper too, with a turkey and fixins including some very tasty sweet potatoes.

This was almost a disaster, but luckily no one was hurt. Well, aside from the turkey. I never got the carving gene. Coconut cream pie. (I didn’t eat any as I have this thing against dried coconut. I’m told the pie was delicious). So all this pictured above was my first Thanksgiving meal of the [...]