Updated February 2024.
Some blogs have really clever About pages. This one does not. Chemo and radiation killed the few clever cells I had left back in 2015, and I doubt I had that many to begin with.
About me: I’m half-deaf introvert navigating my way through the noise all you other people make. My Twitter bio reads, “Useless old person. Friend to animals, Earth and science. Knows how to use apostrophes.” Twitter. Don’t get me started.
As well as being an introvert and half-deaf (which affects your willingness to socialize), I’m probably innately a melancholic but with a great sense of humor. As a kid I spent a lot of time contemplating the absurdity and sorrow of life. As I aged, life seemed just a series of cruel traumas. But, I also learned that in between the anguish and pain and confusion is an exhilarating, extraordinary, joyous, unimaginably beautiful voyage. The trick is to make the most of the in between.
Luckily my sense of humor has dominated for the most part and it’s given me a jaundiced eye, so what you see here is mostly me laughing at the inanity of human foibles. To quote the great philosopher Jimmy Buffett (RIP 2023), “If we couldn’t laugh we would all go insane.”
Who is Maizie?
My dog Maizie was the single most loving, beautiful, gentle, sweet creature to ever draw breath.
In 2000, we found Maizie running in and out of traffic on a busy street. When we finally got close to her, exhausted and scared she jumped into the car. And promptly fell asleep. We went through the motions of finding her owner whomever she was running away from, but when he called and said he couldn’t understand how she escaped since he always kept her “tied to a tree and she never got loose before,” we decided she deserved better. She came into our hearts and our home for 13 treasured years, like that’s where she belonged. And she did.
In the spring of 2013 we lost our sweet girl to cancer. Her spirit is with me always, but, oh, what I would give to feel her warm, velvet ears on my face.
And then came Gidget in 2014. Same story. She is Maizie reincarnated.
DEARMAIZIE 
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