Recent content by Catrin Lewis

Gwenith is on the right. Her brother Huw is on the left.

That is rough. My car insurance covers windshield dings for free, but I'm not sure about full replacement.

I've gotten nothing done today except order kidney diet food for my going-on-18-year-old little girl cat. Unless you count having to go do my evening job at the Big Blue Box Store, right now.

Are the Earnest (Ernest?) Weiners named in honor of the WW2 boxer and humanitarian who died in 2014? And what should we award them for?

If they're ordinary honeybees, it might be a benefit to the region. That is, if the beekeepers who have come to the rescue can't get them rounded up and returned to their hives.

Oh. That's namaste? Seriously, I thought it was "I'm praying for you/your cause/your concern," or maybe, putting hands together in applause. The things you learn. Thanks for the heads up that people get no points for the shocked smilie. I also use it on FB for "That's amazing!", but I guess it...

Thanks for the link. Your poem is poignant indeed.

Because a lot of us are worrywarts, most likely.

Old ThinkPad touch screen laptop, running Windows 7 and WordPerfect 2021, perched on whatever table or desk I find myself at at the time. If I can plug in the charger cord, so much the better.

Ooh, I wondered where you got your avatars. They always read so well.

I've had to turn the heat back on, myself.

That's so awful for you. I got scammed last fall by someone who'd highjacked my sister's Facebook Messenger. Her phone wasn't working at the time and I knew she was in a bad place financially, so eventually I transferred the cash. It wasn't a lot, under $250 all together, but I should have...

Yeah, only one or two. I think I won the September 2023 Short Story contest and I should have saved the post-mortem thread from that. I think there was a time I won the Poetry contest, too. Don't remember which month, precisely, but I could look it up on my Facebook page. EDIT--- It was the...

And the whole world's been losing ever since.

I'm saying "today," meaning Thursday the 29th because I haven't been to bed yet, even if it is 4:00 AM. Feeling kind of empty, and guilty too, as it was the last school day of the year and I didn't get any sub teaching gigs at all this week. Nothing more till September . . . Was supposed to do...