sisu tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-16966 2009-11-06T15:24:16-05:00 Beauty in unexpected places TypePad "The media treat it like a case of non-denominational shoplifting" tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834518c7969e20120a6b2b656970c 2009-11-06T15:24:16-05:00 2009-11-09T17:38:34-05:00 As temperatures hovered in the low thirties early morning, Tiny kept warm atop the kitchen counter register while Cat Whisperer Tuck murmured sweet nothings. "Twitter makes it almost impossible to surprise people with breaking news because they all already know... Sissy Willis The GOP establishment is the problem tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834518c7969e20120a647e793970b 2009-11-01T14:48:37-05:00 2009-11-03T15:38:01-05:00 Even as DIABLO (Democrat In All But Label Only) Dede Scozzafava (above) showed her true colors — after dropping out of the NY District 23 congressional race Saturday — when she "began to quietly and thoughtfully encourage her supporters to... Sissy Willis Assimilating with panache tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834518c7969e20120a69aa809970c 2009-10-31T18:05:57-04:00 2009-11-06T05:17:26-05:00 "I am a lion," oldest sister of the family next door explained as she and her siblings approached our front porch late afternoon on this Halloween Night, transmogrifying a Muslim headscarf into the golden mane of the King of the... Sissy Willis When you notice a cat in profound meditation* tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834518c7969e20120a6851670970c 2009-10-28T17:46:17-04:00 2009-10-30T08:19:22-04:00 "Call me Chinese. I mean they practically own us anyway," quips Glenn Beck. Tiny is not amused. Update: All animals all the time at Modulator's Friday Ark #267, now boarding. *Blog title is excerpt from T.S. Eliot's "The Naming of... Sissy Willis Give to strategic small-government candidates, not parties tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834518c7969e20120a623cfe3970b 2009-10-27T11:08:59-04:00 2009-10-31T12:36:09-04:00 There's something happening here. The anti-establishment protest song has been turned on its head as Tea Partiers find their voice: "People speaking their minds/Getting so much resistance from behind/What a field-day for the heat/A thousand people in the street/Singing songs... Sissy Willis So easy to love tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834518c7969e20120a675d316970c 2009-10-25T19:35:57-04:00 2009-10-25T20:03:11-04:00 Earl Grey, majestic lord of all he surveys. Putty in Tiny's paws. Seductive. Voluptuous. Wary of entering the inner sanctum. Sissy Willis "Now that President Obama has made it safe to hate Fox" tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834518c7969e20120a6106d02970b 2009-10-21T18:35:34-04:00 2009-10-24T05:29:11-04:00 Tiny's main squeeze Earl Grey stopped by early morning for a nip. After we suggested the feral fellow not enter the house, he scurried into Tiny's hosta blind to reconnoiter before heading off for parts unknown. "Obama has authorized 40,000... Sissy Willis Limbaugh's critics: Fools Rush in tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834518c7969e20120a5f227dc970b 2009-10-18T12:09:36-04:00 2009-10-19T18:40:31-04:00 "Freedom from Fear" (left) and "Freedom from Want" are two of Norman Rockwell's "The Four Freedoms" series inspired by FDR's rousing wartime State of the Union address in 1941. Reproduced in four consecutive issues of The Saturday Evening Post in... Sissy Willis That you do so well tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834518c7969e20120a5f0d4a3970b 2009-10-17T19:23:12-04:00 2009-10-17T19:23:12-04:00 Being the object of a voodoo-doll puncturing. It's remarkably effective. Could we sue for physical deterioration caused by mental anguish? Sissy Willis Within striking distance of the jaws tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834518c7969e20120a6306e51970c 2009-10-11T17:01:50-04:00 2009-10-16T14:13:59-04:00 Squirrels on the lawn, skunks in the border garden, raccoon kits clinging to the Silver Maple in the predawn, sparrows flocking in the lilac bush out front on a breezy afternoon. These crisp autumn days in Chelsea-by-the-Sea were made to... Sissy Willis Roll over, Alfred Nobel, and tell Jimmy Carter the news tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834518c7969e20120a627e3c2970c 2009-10-09T06:29:57-04:00 2009-10-09T14:48:50-04:00 "Barack Obama is the third sitting US President to be given the prize after Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson," The Times captions above image. It figures (see Jonah Goldberg's Liberal Fascism). Kevin Lamarque/Reuters photo. Vanderleun trumps Drudge on Twitter:Drudgereport still... Sissy Willis What's up, doc? tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834518c7969e20120a5cb6392970b 2009-10-07T18:43:02-04:00 2009-10-09T19:17:23-04:00 "I feel better already, and Tiny is blissfully unaware of my concerns," we wrote in a message of thanks accompanying a donation to Angell Memorial, Boston's historic animal hospital and research center this afternoon. The contrast between the patient-centered service... Sissy Willis Kit Chat tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834518c7969e20120a617a7f4970c 2009-10-06T14:45:34-04:00 2009-10-06T17:24:36-04:00 Gentleman caller Earl Grey stops by for an early-morning clowder and catnip klatch with his coy mistress Sweet Tiny Pea. Update: "I LOVE the new post," imails our sis: She: Clowdering seems to be the way to keep romance alive.... Sissy Willis Blue skies smiling at me tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834518c7969e20120a612fb84970c 2009-10-04T17:59:46-04:00 2009-10-04T17:59:46-04:00 He loves, and she loves … Tiny and Earl clowder the light fantastic this afternoon as foggy overcast gives way to "blue skies smiling at me." Even as Tuck sands and paints and climbs ladders to the sky to spit... Sissy Willis "Men who will deal likewise with their fellow men" tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834518c7969e20120a5bb80a8970b 2009-10-04T12:35:34-04:00 2009-10-04T12:57:41-04:00 "St. Francis preaching to the birds" attributed to Giotto (1295-1300. Fresco. St. Francis, Upper Church, Assisi, Italy) "If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who... Sissy Willis Beautiful dreamer tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834518c7969e20120a6105ef1970c 2009-10-03T17:30:26-04:00 2009-10-03T17:30:26-04:00 Sissy Willis "Twitter, Gawd love it, is blogging for people with ADHD" tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834518c7969e20120a5b28869970b 2009-10-01T17:41:27-04:00 2009-10-03T12:57:23-04:00 Tiny and late bloomer Sedum 'Autumn Joy' trace a tapestry of delicious pinks and grays in the autumn light. "Put down the Twitter machine. Your fans and admirers miss you," writes a gently scolding Gayle Miller in the comments of... Sissy Willis The soul of wit tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834518c7969e20120a58982b3970b 2009-09-23T13:52:17-04:00 2009-09-25T05:53:03-04:00 Where have all the blogposts gone? First time we've gone over a week without blogging since launching our little flagship into the blogosphere 5 3/4 years ago on December 12, 2003, with "The tidings that dare not speak their name."... Sissy Willis To sleep, perchance to scream tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834518c7969e20120a5c05deb970c 2009-09-13T13:21:46-04:00 2009-09-18T06:36:03-04:00 Tiny spoke to us in a dream last night. Not her usual meows, maos, prrts and purrs, but in The King's English. Tuck asked what she sounded like. Don't remember a sound. Were her lips moving? More like reading her... Sissy Willis The warring tribes of post-9/11 tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834518c7969e20120a563f2b2970b 2009-09-11T13:20:19-04:00 2009-09-11T20:57:27-04:00 Republication of our September 11, 2006 post "A virtual lamp beside the golden door, revisited": "It’s been nearly three years since 9/11," wrote Michele of A Small Victory two years back, inviting her readers to add their own two cents'... Sissy Willis Berry Berenson Perkins: "Making her statement in a grand manner" tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834518c7969e20120a562ad0f970b 2009-09-11T05:48:01-04:00 2009-09-11T09:02:33-04:00 “She was just this angel that landed on this planet for a short amount of time,” a heartbroken Marisa Berenson told CBS News shortly after she lost her little sister, Berry, on American Flight 11, the first plane to fly... Sissy Willis Obama's National Day of Forgetfulness tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834518c7969e20120a5b89fc0970c 2009-09-10T21:27:22-04:00 2009-09-10T21:43:28-04:00 "As if anticipating the left's insidious attempts to steal their fire — by turning their sacred precinct into an anti-American bully pulpit — the angry gods of Ground Zero blew up a sandstorm of warning on the one-year anniversary of... Sissy Willis "It compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies" tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834518c7969e20120a554caf1970b 2009-09-08T11:07:36-04:00 2009-11-11T13:46:17-05:00 Sunrise at Camelot-by-the-Sea from Goomp's terrace this morning. L'heure bleu. Tuesday morning after Labor Day meant the first day of school for us children of the Fifties, a day of trepidation for ourselves, a smartie pants with social-skill issues. We... Sissy Willis A coat of many colours* tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834518c7969e20120a52c123f970b 2009-08-28T16:51:02-04:00 2009-09-04T08:27:56-04:00 Tiny dazzles atop the woodpile this afternoon with her classical profile and the voluptuous silkiness of her exquisite Chelsea Gray coat. What it took a tiny deer mouse celebrated among scientists as an "evolution icon" several thousand years to accomplish... Sissy Willis "Our founders had a deep understanding of human nature" tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834518c7969e20120a5798093970c 2009-08-26T21:00:18-04:00 2009-10-03T13:04:25-04:00 Were Tiny's PR team to adopt a totalitarianesque approach similar to that used by President Obama's people in their NEA-directed propaganda war to recruit hearts and minds to his progressive agenda (see below), would her fellow Feline-Americans buy the false... Sissy Willis