Tag Archives: Travel

Cats on a Hot Tin Roof

Posted on 05 June 2011 by Isabel Gibson

My Oxford says a cat is a “small, furry, domesticated, carnivorous quadruped.” What does it know? Continue reading →

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Not From Around Here

Posted on 13 March 2011 by Isabel Gibson

Where are y’all from? The time is March, 1990; the occasion is so-called spring break, there being nothing in the snowbanks of home that speaks yet of spring. Our questioner is a stereotypically blond and bronzed Pasadenan waitress: after all, … Continue reading →

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