We frequently join our friends Gary, JoAnn, Laura Belle, and Don for dinner Friday evenings. What with our various vacation and travel sche...

Mortimer knew he was dying. He had traveled to the deepest, darkest jungles of Africa to spread the Lord’s Good News. He had started a scho...

It’s Friday yet again, the first Friday in 2007. After a two-week break, She Who Must Be Obeyed has returned to work. Elder Daughter and th...

This was what popped out of my Fortune Cookie after a Chinese dinner with our Thursday night gang. Don’t you believe it. I’m calling “Bulls...

Mr. and Mrs. Debonair, September 1998. This photo, excavated from the Elisson Archive, shows Mr. and Mrs. Debonair attending a formal weddin...

Matata’s love of confined spaces has been documented extensively on this site. Matata’s love of warm places has also been documented extensi...

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Eric, the Straight White Guy , shares with me a love of Epic Verse. Anyone who encounters Eric in the convivial setting of a blogmeet is, i...

Once upon a time, there was a dinky little Mexican restaurant on the gritty north side of Fort Worth, hard by the fabled Stockyards. Joe T. ...

Offering advice on how to enjoy a successful New Year’s Eve party right now smacks of closing the barn door after the horse has run off…but ...

Gasper the Beluga Whale, in a photograph taken last New Year’s Eve. Atlanta is in mourning upon hearing the tragic news that Gasper, one of ...

This is the story of an Adventurous Kitten. She was new to our household, this kitten, back in 1995. Our tomcat Stripes had gone the Way Of...

...they’re riding Shetlands. But when they ride one of these, we’re gonna have to aim real low. Elizabeth, the dwarf miniature horse. Meet ...

Today is the last day of 2006. It’s the day that marks the end of the year in which Elder Daughter moved from Cambridge, Massatoozis to Wa...

A few months ago, the Daddy d’Elisson - Eli, hizzownself - took one of those Stress Tests as part of his annual physical. It’s the one in wh...

Those of us with small children know the pleasure of seeing the creative output of our progeny slapped up on the side of the refrigerator. W...

The start of our trip home from Foat Wuth to Atlanta was delayed thanks to bad weather. We had planned to get out of Dodge mid-day Friday,...

We have a drive of roughly 13-14 hours ahead of us as we wend our way back to Atlanta. Anybody familiar with the mechanics of Long Drives kn...

This afternoon, we will begin our long journey home after nearly a week in the Bowels Heart of Texas. She Who Must Be Obeyed, the Mistress ...

Matata, self-imprisoned in a laundry basket. No, Miss Matata is not really in the Brig, despite her numerous Crimes and Peccadilloes against...