Misc blather Archives

Detente

By lifstrand | February 10, 2026 - 5:43 pm |February 10, 2026 Critters, Homesteading

Poppy, Daisy, and Sadie testing the interspecies relationship waters. Daisy gave it a try, too. We’ve got a ways to go.

Critters

By lifstrand | December 31, 2025 - 7:25 pm |December 31, 2025 Misc blather, Website

I just created a new sub-page on my website, a menu item under the Stories & Stuff tab, called Critters. (See navigation column) Rather than blog about the critters – my housemates, barn critters, and wildlife – my plan is to keep all my primarily critter-related posts on one page…. Continue reading →

Resolutions are for the unresolved

By lifstrand | December 30, 2025 - 8:03 pm |December 30, 2025 Critters, Misc blather

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This year I resolve to make no New Year’s resolutions. Why bother? Either I’m going to do the things or I’m not – and if I am, I don’t need to make any special resolutions about them, much less… oh wait. That first sentence is a resolution, isn’t it. Yeah,… Continue reading →

I’m not in love

By lifstrand | October 14, 2025 - 8:04 pm |October 14, 2025 Critters, Writing Business

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Prepare to be outraged. I am just going to put it right out there: I am not in love with two kittens in my house right now. This isn’t my first kitten rodeo. At one point in the last twenty-five years I accidentally had something like a dozen kittens of… Continue reading →

Be the change? How do we do that?

By lifstrand | June 19, 2025 - 4:55 pm |June 20, 2025 Misc blather, Public information messages, Spirituality

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I am sharing here a mildly edited post that I submitted to a private group, about how to be the change that we want to see. I’ve been asked for permission to share it. I’m okay with that but since the post was written specifically for that group, I felt… Continue reading →

Delinquent? GUILTY!

By lifstrand | May 15, 2025 - 7:00 pm |May 15, 2025 Critters, Writing Business

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I’m kinda old to be an actual juvenile delinquent, but I am guilty of ignoring my blog for too long. SORRY! In my defense I can only say I’ve been crazy busy, and that’s the truth [more on this another time]. Thank goodness for my critters because they keep me… Continue reading →

The End of Times

By lifstrand | February 8, 2025 - 8:44 pm |February 8, 2025 Spirituality

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The End of Times* is always the Beginning of Times. It is Law. But hey, don’t get your bustle in a hedgerow over this — it’s just a kind of spring clean for the May queen [lyrics credit: Led Zeppelin’s Stairway to Heaven]. In other words, out with the old… Continue reading →