22 January 2026 Among my New Year’s projects has been the reclaiming of my Mud Room/Laundry Room from Jolene, Jolene Du Pré, to be specific. This room became the Pup Room when she entered my life (my world) in early September 2023, and she’s immensely enjoyed having full run of the space. She doesn’t spend as much time in there, now that she has full run of the entire house and the acreage surrounding it. I therefore thought that I could set up this interior real-estate

July 2019 Sure, It’s Eggy . . . The automobile and I have a fairly tortured history. And, in all fairness to myself, it wasn’t a one-way street. Each vehicle in question exasperated me just as much as I exhausted every attempt to find common ground, or road, with it. I did not own a car until I was well into my 20’s and had moved to California from the East. I soon, and alarmingly, discovered that Life in the Golden State without a vehicle is impossible. In a State where a