Image by author Mama Weather gifted me a delight wrapped in cold and topped with an icy bow the other day. I knew it was coming, so I...

Image by author These first days of January 2025 will feel eerily similar to the last days of December 2024. This might be because they...

Image by author My family has had a wonderful sense of humor for as long as I can remember. Jokes came from mouth and hand, word and...

Image by author The other day, I was out walking on the trail, replaying a conversation I’d had earlier with a friend. He asked me why I...

I drove south down I-95, hauling the four hours home from New Jersey, listening to a beautiful piano instrumental on the radio. This is...

Since I started this blog over three years ago, I’ve taken Thanksgiving week off from writing. It’s luxurious, like a beautiful spa day,...

The moon was so big — almost glaring if it wasn’t so intoxicatingly beautiful. “You know I love you,” I told it. “I do,” it said, with a...

I sit here in pajamas as my mind goes blank at what to write this week. Do I write something related to the change here in the US this...

This isn’t the best week in the US to put out a non-political non-election-related blog post. Who’s going to read such a thing? There’s...

I do not live on a trick-or-treating road. For 24 years I’ve lived in this house. For 24 years, nary a Halloween trick-or-treater. It’s a...

“You always do this,” my husband said. “Fret about having to go somewhere, then come home and gush about it. You always have a great...

It’s official. I’m a nearly sixty-year-old chick who’s climbed the stairwell of the Empire State Building, from bottom to top, in...

Not long ago, my luck in life improved when someone I know gifted me a cruelty that was meant to put me down and raise them up — which it...

I was sitting at Starbucks the other day at a window seat, looking out onto a beautiful, upscale plaza near my house. It was a day of...

I love kids like crazy. I’m not sure if I would make a good kindergarten teacher, but I’d make a stellar playdate-for-hire. I can’t get...

I’m excited. Tomorrow, for the second time, I’ll get to test my new tracking system for climbing the stairwell of a nearby building 32...

It was such a glorious day. The sky soared in its hopeful blue, the jet contrails streaking east to west, north to south, giving a depth...

I was walking the other day when I rounded the corner and saw him — or her. A stone-cold raccoon lying on the edge of the road. Flies...

Friends, Happy End of Summer! The Little Cartoon Blog is taking a hiatus this week and will return next week. Ahh, it feels so good to...

The other day I asked my son whether I could have just as easily been a rock instead of me. He looked at me, knowing I was up to my usual...