For the sake of all humanity, do not say these things out loud:
“I really had a crush on you back in the day.”
”Do you still have your fat clothes, because I know someone who could use them.”
“Tomorrow I’m going to relax and take a day for myself.”
When you utter these words out loud, they hurtle [...]
Kitten-becoming-a-cat has found a way to calm himself. It lasts maybe five minutes. It’s a start.
…I’m easily manipulated by small gestures like bouquets of clover tucked into bud vases.
… I am living in the longest days of the year. Yet somehow I find myself with very few hours to get things like blog posts written and dinner cooked.
… I have a work project that needs some attention, a 3-year-old who needs [...]
A kitten is great when it curls up between your chin and your chest, purring and cuddling, claws retracted.
A kitten is not so great when you are prying it from the window screens, pulling it down from the drapes, coaxing it out from behind the stove, extracting it from a tangle of power cords.
A kitten [...]
We’ll never replace the one we lost in January, but we are happy to have a furniture- and curtain-shredding, leg climbing, food- and water-dish spilling, meowing little troublemaker in our midst again.
Today we gave this cat a funeral. We are that kind of family.
No, when he was alive he didn’t sleep on a canopy bed with Laura Ashley sheets and we didn’t spoon out his Fancy Feast into a crystal goblet. We treat our cats like cats, which means they sleep on our bed.
This guy was [...]
