Neurotic Owl

flapping vaguely downward through clouds of uncertainty on wings of existential dread

Author Archives: naralesser

1000 cranes.

You probably know this story.  Sadako Sasaki was two years old when the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima.  At age twelve, she found out that she had leukemia.  She worked … Continue reading

May 19, 2016 · Leave a comment

Um, hi.

I don’t feel like I can explain it again right now, but Charlie might be very sick, and I won’t know for sure for a while.

May 17, 2016 · 1 Comment

Sunrise, sunset, my kitten is dumb!

Remember that wee little kitten I adopted?  Remember how he’s turned into a MOTHERFUCKING GIANT?  Remember how he likes to try to strangle himself with plastic bags? Here he is … Continue reading

May 13, 2016 · Leave a comment

Dolls, dolls, dolls.

I didn’t buy this one, so she doesn’t count against the ‘I don’t collect dolls’ tally!  Or, actually, I did buy her, but back in 1997 or so, so she’s … Continue reading

May 11, 2016 · Leave a comment

I’m not done, I swear!

In retrospect, that was a bad way to title my last post for a week and a half.  Except, of course, that I didn’t KNOW I was about to disappear … Continue reading

May 3, 2016 · Leave a comment

I made a thing and now I am DONE.

This is from a Simplicity pattern and ha!  Ha I say!  I am an experienced stitcher lady who balks at neither corset nor chiffon, and this bitch made me weep … Continue reading

April 19, 2016 · Leave a comment

Did I show y’all this? I can’t remember.

Teehee.  Someone start the countdown, this is definitely going to get me in some sort of trouble.

April 14, 2016 · Leave a comment

I do doodle.

I’m not sure if I should always be given a pencil and paper during meetings which only partially involve me, or never.  I am an inveterate doodler at the best … Continue reading

April 13, 2016 · Leave a comment

Weekly thingy and another lady of awesomeness!

A friend suggested James Tiptree Jr. (or, really, Alice B. Sheldon), and I’m so glad, because now I have SO MANY new things to read.  Sheldon wrote as Tiptree starting … Continue reading

April 10, 2016 · Leave a comment

Dance, ballerina! Or whoever, really.

Going to dance performances can be hard for me.  I’m not as sad as I used to be that I had to give up dancing, because I’m 37 years old … Continue reading

April 7, 2016 · Leave a comment