My youngest sister, Darling Sister, did the Ancestry testing. Of note was the 24% Irish, which we'd suspected but had no documentation of. Also, we're 100% European, a thing than none of us were vested in.

Brief explanation that I'm very middle-aged and Son of Isis is an adult. He's had Sora since he was 21, and sometimes it was just the two of them, so he is taking it hard. When he moved in with his girlfriend last October, his two boys cats joined her two girl cats, making a Brady Bunch situation. Of late, Sora was…

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. - Mae West (August 17, 1893 – November 22, 1980)

Aww, man. My son's cat, Sora de Karma, crossed the Rainbow Bridge this evening, at the age of 12. 12 is not terribly old for a cat, but Sora a/k/a Soda, had a history of urinary tract issues. He will be missed.

That is a very difficult, and I hope you have the strength you need.

I didn't know my godfather very well. I am very fond of my godmother-namesake-aunt, though she and I are very different.

My husband is a III.

Separately: My mother had to stay overnight in the hospital after a fall yesterday. My brother asked that my sisters and I let our mother's sisters know.

Oh, it's Wednesday!

Hail Caesar!

When I am angry, I pray God to swing our globe into the fiery sun and prevent the sorrows of the not-yet-born: but when I am content, I want to lie forever in the shade, till I become a shade myself. - T. E. Lawrence (16 August 1888 – 19 May 1935)

This is great. This is so great!

OMG!! And Chico Marx wasn't really an Italian stereotype, and Harpo Marx could speak!!

[Got it. Didn't know you were a Nigerian Prince.)

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She started liking him when she was a teenager, especially after the "Dancing in the Dark" video (she did then and still does resemble Courteney Cox). When whatever happened to cause that right turn she took, it was already ingrained.

Do they? I wear my bleeding heart on my (left) sleeve, so I don't know what the right-wing fans are into. Smart Sister is very conservative, so she'll complain when artists she likes (Springsteen) "get political."

Good cause, good song, good band, good man, that Jeff Tweedy.

Son of Isis, a line cook at Emeril's, briefly worked at the Applebee's in Lafayette, La. He declared it his least favorite job ever, even worse than Hot Topic.

With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing. - Catherine Doherty (August 15, 1896 – December 14, 1985)