Best of my tiger daughters 2011!

Minion Vs the Christmas Tree series (does not disappoint)

Minion teaches about risk.

Evil Minion learns how to eat everything in the house.

Lady MacHaley teaches about evil.

And some best-of-pics with original captions.

The Best of Mabeltalk 2011!

Alright, it's time for annual lists. I've never done this before, but I'm going to look back at The Year In my own blog. Not a summary, cause that would be weird. But just a highlight from each month.

The shocking thing is, I can't believe I wrote these things this year. They feel like a million years ago. One thing I learned this year: Depression, for me, makes time speed up. I keep thinking that things that happened in May happened in 2010 or 2009.

So here we go... 2011 Bloggy Highlights

Last December

A freak snowstorm confirms Sting's claim that we're not alone at being alone.

January

My Political Correctness series. I finally got sick and tired of white people saying "Well we don't get offended when people make fun of us!" And also "Everyone's so sensitive these days" whenever someone suggested they act with a modicum of respect for other people.

February

A tribute to Fernando's foster parents. They had a tough year--he had both legs amputated because of diabetes complications, and at one point they were both in the hospital. But last I saw on facebook, they were still hugging and kissing at their 50th anniversary party.

March

My Joseph Campbell viewing-your-life-as-a-hero's-journey post. Cause I felt there were a lot of us this year who needed to the encouragement. ...Still the case, unfortunately!

April

I posted my first cartoon, to the theme of Choose Life.

May

I made a commitment to Imperfection.

And said farewell to my Trivial Buttonhole blog.

June

Lessons from Magneto, Mystique and Malcolm X in pride. (Who taught you to hate yourself?)

But also I saw Prince for the first time, and so: 10 Lessons I Learned from Prince.

July

A wedding saved me the weekend Amy Winehouse and many Norway kids died.

August

A week of posts about optimism, which led (by the way) to Ms Brownlow sending me stories about Oliver teh Cat and Chloe.

September

We began the story of guess who!

October

Some good simple advice.

November

I hate on "successful" people.


Sidelights from A Trivial Buttonhole:

Minion and I battle the ants.
Hyperbole's revised pain chart.
Better Book Titles.



Bonus: My exclusive holiday fashion guide from last year!

Stoopid Comments

You don't have to read this... basically it's an article about new regulations for Canadian airlines in re. mediating between customers with allergies, and those transporting cats.

What's stupid is allll the comments. Every single one of them either says

- cats should travel with luggage

or

- allergic humans shouldn't fly.

What I HATE about this, is that the whole article is about compromise!! No one's regulated either of these extremes--no group has been told to eff off and die. They came up with a couple of reasonable solutions, and welcomed the airlines to find others.

So why is there a need to get on the comments section and fight?! Both sides in the comments sound RIDICULOUS.

This must say something about the kind of people who, by and large, comment on news items. Like maybe... they don't even read the articles!