by kathykastner | Jul 3, 2026 | Blog: Dispatches, explorations
Isn’t this a perfect picture, a cardinal and a sparrow making peace over a birdbath. We love our new house, they love our new birdbath. We lived in our last house (which was also our first house) for 36 years. It was a three story house with fruit trees in the...
by kathykastner | May 3, 2026 | Blog: Dispatches, explorations
Interesting thing struck me, as I re-read the eulogy I was asked to write a year ago. We were one of the many friends told, in a personal visit, of Robert’s lung cancer. He understood the diagnosis to be a death sentence, and he was coming to say goodbye. Months...
by kathykastner | Mar 12, 2026 | Dogs
Penny the pink-nosed pooch insisted this was her best angle. I espied this blonde beauty whilst returning from a window shopping spree. She wagged at me expectantly and I couldn’t resist. Good dog...
by kathykastner | Mar 12, 2026 | explorations
Janice does the Herculean job of arranging of the get-togethers. She works methodically and with gusto: making sure each of us are in the group text and always thoughtfully putting forward more than one date. It can be challenging coordinating lives filled with...
by kathykastner | Mar 8, 2026 | Dogs
New ‘hood. New mission: meet the dogs; map the dogs.In the old hood, I had many favorites: dogs who loved me with equal enthusiasm, although the first dog I met, who lived up to her name, Scruffles, died in a house fire iset by her owner who’d just been charged...