Persian students page on the torturing of bloggers

Here is the page referenced in today’s Day by Day comic strip. It’s a harrowing read… Physical torture, punches and kicks: “he banged my head to the bench that made my recently-operated nose bleed, and later I found out that they broke my nose”; “they punched us”; “we were alone in single cells for months”; Continue reading Persian students page on the torturing of bloggers

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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite. — G. K. Chesterton

Still snow

I have commandeered my husband’s car, since mine still looks a whole lot like a snow drift. He drove both me and Beeper the Orange Cat to the vet’s this morning to have her nose looked at… she’s been getting bloody noses constantly. Vet says, possible polyp. I may even have to — get this! Continue reading Still snow