Kerri-Ellen

Gratuitous cat picture for August.

Gratuitous cat picture for today

Sleeping kitty

Today's gratuitous cat picture

Tabby cat sitting in a box

Another gratuitous cat picture

Tabby cat sleeping on the top of a green fuzzy cat tree with a catio and sunlight visible through the nearby window.

Gratuitous cat picture, sleeping in the sun

There is NO justification for hate, bigotry, & racism. NONE. Any logic you use to justify hatred and racism is inherently flawed. If you support someone who espouses those values & repeat that rhetoric, you are giving undue power & recognition to it & taking personal responsibility for consequences.

I will start trying to post more though. Even if no more than gratuitous cat pictures, my crafts, and my music :-)

Green-gold eyed tabby cat by the side of the bed looking up

This is Moses, adopted from a local shelter. He has been with me for a little over a year.

Friends, I have to keep my head down for many reasons. So I don't post a lot publicly about things for which I feel very strongly personally. But know that I support & believe in many things currently at risk: the rule of law, free speech, equality, women's rights, open healthcare, & so much more.

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Donate to Help Amy Finnegan Recover from Brain Surgery, organized by Amy Finnegan My name is Amy Finnegan, and I have been struggling with an increasing amoun… Amy Finnegan needs your support for Help Amy Finnegan Recover from Brain Surgery

In 10 days, Amy will have brain surgery to remove something that has been affecting her entire life for decades & getting worse in recent years. If you can help out even a little with the campaign or can share this link, I would really appreciate it. #signalboost
www.gofundme.com/f/help-amy-f...

Tabby cat with green eyes, sitting with one paw extended, looking out from deep under a bed

Gratuitous Cat Picture

Her surgery is closer now. The hit to her income while she is recovering is preying on her mind. If you can help, please do. If you can't but can share the fundraiser, I would appreciate that too.

Amy is family, both real family and chosen family. If you can help out her Go Fund Me before her brain surgery happens in 3 weeks, please do.
#signalboost

Amy is family, both real family and chosen family. If you can help out her Go Fund Me before her brain surgery happens in 3 weeks, please do.
#signalboost

Donate to Help Amy Finnegan Recover from Brain Surgery, organized by Amy Finnegan My name is Amy Finnegan, and I have been struggling with an increasing amoun… Amy Finnegan needs your support for Help Amy Finnegan Recover from Brain Surgery

Hate that this is my first post, but hey that's life. My doctor has finally found the source of my #disability and some of my #chronicillness, but fixing it means surgery.
The good news: Pituitary #CushingsDisease has a treatment.
The bad news: the treatment is brain surgery.
gofund.me/78ba89b3

Background is a BA in English with an emphasis on business/professional writing, generalist paralegal cert, half a law degree, and a Master's in Library & Information Science. Former desktop publisher, former conflict analyst, former corporate paralegal, former proofreader. Current contract admin.

Thingvellir road marker in Iceland

Cooled volcanic lava flow in Iceland

I love to travel. Mostly I travel in the USA with a couple friends who also like to travel. Sometimes alone or with family. Sometimes I get to go outside USA, like on a cruise, to Canada, or to Ireland and Iceland. Pics are from Iceland. Hoping to do more international travel in upcoming years.

I'm a geek and a nerd. I like stuffed animals. I like Doctor Who. I collect things especially pretty Sparkly things. I have a telescope I don't know yet how to use. I love waterfalls and carousels. I'm a messy housekeeper.

Yes I said he talks a lot twice. He is a very vocal kitty.

Tabby cat with bright green eyes sitting in a small shallow box

Tabby cat sitting in a Tudor cardboard cat house

I'm owned by a gorgeous tabby cat with green eyes that I adopted from a shelter in Feb 2024. He was already named Moses so he still is. He bites, scratches, winds himself around my legs, talks a lot and is so soft. He hates being picked up. He talks a lot.

Shelves of fiction books

I'm an avid reader with particular love of historical fiction, paranormal romances, science fiction, fantasy, and Regency-era romances

Cabinet full of musical instruments

Row of stringed instruments and an electronic keyboard

Bodhran and lots of music books and binders on shelves

I'm a filker, songwriter, instrumentalist with ever-growing collection of instruments I can play a little/can't yet play, a cappella singer, former manager/plenipotentiary for Court and Country (renaissance/Fannish chorus), teacher/presenter on historical music topics & historical music researcher.

That was supposed to be Regia Anglorum . I didn't notice the autocorrect change.

Collection of autumn-themed cards and projects using Stampin' Up! products

I'm a papercrafter and Stampin' Up! independent demonstrator (what's called a hobby demo with low or no volume of customers) but I love teaching projects and techniques and crafting with others.

I'm a Democrat in the far NW burbs of Chicago.

Row of colorful historical costumes

I'm an historical costumer, a lightly active SCA participant (THL Margrett Norwoode; AoA, OW, OE; Midrealm, Shire of Ravenslake) and an inactive but supportive member of the Midwest US chapter of Regia Anglo-American, Micel Folcland.

Just getting started here. Doing a small collection of posts to tell you who I am.

Moses the tabby cat with green eyes lounging at the doorway

Moses is watching you.