HB was our first adoption under the compromise agreement Steve and I had come to in our shared life. Steve likes Scottish Folds and I’m committed to rescue cats. When the time came for us to be looking for another Scottish Fold back in 2003, I set-up an alert on PetFinder for Scottish Folds needing …
While we were standing in a long line for the Matterhorn on our recent trip to Disneyland, we found ourselves with these girls in line behind us. Steve calls these girls my posse and my entourage. They were about 10 years old, members of a girls’ dance group, and at Disneyland celebrating one of their …
I still miss Elsa. I love Fergus, Jonas, and HB, and Missy in her time as well, but their existence is separate, not a replacement. Which is, I suppose, as it should be when remembering family members. Of course, I miss Ezra and Cassady, too, but there’s something about Elsa. Perhaps it was the way …
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Missy came into our lives in July of 2014 when she was already 16-years-old. After having lost 3 cats in a 15-month period in the previous years, Steve and I had recovered enough that we were finally ready to start building up the pride again. We had gone to the Mendocino county animal shelter to …
A few weeks ago, I was waiting in line at the post office and, thanks to the wonders of modern technology, I had the pleasure of listening to one side of some guy’s phone conversation. This was a weird dude, and lots of odd things were said in his half of the conversation, but the …
Cassady has been my friend for a very long time. When I decided to join some friends in off-campus housing for my senior year of college, the first thing on my to-do list was to get a cat. I had spent 3 long years of dorm life missing my cats and, for me, one of …
Anyone who knows me knows how much I love cats. I see in each of them an individual with their own personality, and I have always given myself over fully to the love and responsibility that comes with “owning” a cat. However, I have also come to realize that there are some cats with whom …
It has been suggested to me that my last posting might offend some of my readers, which is certainly not my intent. I have a very quirky, irreverent sense of humor. And I am, what I call on my résumé, detail-oriented. I notice the little details. And it is in these details that I find …
I remember. . . Driving with my parents down to Charleston, IL to see my brother in an original musical at Eastern Illinois University. It was a show with three characters: Adam, Eve, and the snake. My brother played the snake with sly, sinister savvy. Traveling to Virginia to see my brother’s show at Busch …
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When I awoke this morning, the first news I received was that Steve Irwin was dead. Although this certainly doesn’t affect me personally, and even in the face of all the people dying on a daily basis, this saddens me. Steve and I loved watching the Crocodile Hunter and Croc Files. Steve Irwin was the …