The Place to Take a Humor Break
The source of my sinus infections has finally been isolated. It was in my sinuses. Maybe I should be more specific. Various allergy/sinus/head doctors poked and prodded me for years. A sleep study revealed I […]
Cats living with humans dates back over 10,000 years. But in all that time, there is not a single documented case of a cat ever thanking its human cohabitant. In ancient Egypt, people worshipped cats […]
It’s no secret that my wife and I are crazy about cats. We’ve fostered dozens of kittens and adult cats over the years. We currently belong to three (formerly) male cats who were all once […]
Artwork by Lauren Faulkenberry. Idea/text by Bill Spencer. Bill Spencer is author of Uranus Is Always Funny: Short Essays to Make You Laugh Lauren Faulkenberry is a novelist and illustrator living in western North Carolina. Originally […]
Living with a cat is a battle of wits. This is true of any cat. All cats are smart, but some are kitty geniuses. One of those is the cat who lives with me, Harmony. […]
The Ancient Egyptians created all sort of hybrid gods way before we even engaged in genetic splicing. But all we did with that science was to make genetically-modified tomatoes and the like. Anyway the long-ago […]
In these contentious times, it seems like every week there’s another tell-all book promising to reveal shocking secrets of sordid behavior by a politician or celebrity. Being neither a politician nor celebrity, I was taken […]
Our cat Welby—the world’s best cat ever—lived with us for the last 9 years of her life, and the happiest moment for us in all that time was when she peed a big puddle on […]
1. The human shall get up out of bed at whatever obscenely early hour the cat decides he/she is hungry. There are no exceptions. 2. The human shall not put the cat on a diet. […]
The library I work for is closed and all of us are working from home. So what did I learn from the library-system-wide Zoom meeting I was recently required to attend? Well, I now know […]