Ocean Dreamer

Things have been busy for the past few days, sorry for the lack of posts and comments on your blogs.  Briefly, here’s what I’ve been up to:

A *ton* of teaching jobs were recently posted for next year and I have been applying like crazy.  It is a long process and I have to apply for [...]

In her favorite spot, surveying the backyard on Sunday.

Happy Pet Parents Day (actually yesterday 4.27)!  Okay, its probably a holiday created for the sole purpose of feeding off consumerism … but I’m happy to celebrate it without buying anything.

“I’m ignoring you.”

I’ve seen this on a few blogs and want to participate.
My girls in one of their favorite spots!

I’ve been vegetarian for about ten years.  In that time, I only ate chicken on a trip to Italy, because I wasn’t sure what gluten free food I would find.  In all that time, I never had any craving for meat.  Not once.  Yet for the past week, ever since visiting my lovely locally-owned co-op [...]

Seattle had its first snow of the season yesterday and today.  When I lived in Maine, we would get sick of the snow by the end of the winter.  In Seattle, though, we usually only get snow once or twice a year, so it’s always a real treat.  Someone forgot to tell the city that, [...]

Today my sweet girl Cassie turns three!  She’s a great dog and, as I’ve written on here recently, she and I have developed a closer bond over the past year or so, which has been wonderful.  Happy birthday, girl.

A bit late, but here are some photos from Pride last weekend. I went to many of the events and loved it. Last year I skipped most of them because of my parents’ Conservative Cruise got into Seattle the same weekend. (Yes, you read that right. People from Fox News and [...]

For most of the 2 years that Cassie has been part of the family, she has been a dog dog (as opposed to a people dog, like Zoe.  That is, Cassie used to be ambivalent about people but adore other dogs, whereas Zoe was the opposite).  Over the past few months, though, Cass and I [...]