How to reach 108
Patches is not yet one hundred eight years old. Theodosia is actually pretty close, but if you tell her I said that, I will never live to reach forty-four years old.
Reopening ceremonies
I had no reason to be angry with Garth Brooks. We have no reason to be angry with adopters who can’t keep their cats. But reason drops the ball, and love is not a game.
Not so bad
Although none of them were yet born when it was released, the Tabby’s Place cats have made Outkast’s “Hey Ya!” their solemn anthem. Specifically: “Now I want to see y’all on y’all baddest behavior.”
The Games are on
You hear your anthem. Snoop Dogg is cheering your name. The whole world is your Number One Fan. One of two things is happening. Either you just won a gold medal in the Olympic Games… …or you are a Tabby’s Place cat on an unremarkable Thursday.
Forever years old
I want to believe that everyone I love will remain young. Of course my mother is still thirty-five. She is every bit as thirty-five as she was when she packed my peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches. Of course Angelo is still a youth. He is not a seventeen year old cat so much as a seventeen year old […]
Unprecedented events
If you want to watch the badminton quarterfinals, you will have to set your alarm for 3am. If you are passionate about pentathlon, you understand your event will not make prime time. But if you are a Tabby’s Place cat, you are too good of a sport to care if you are a popular sport.
Epilogues: July 2024
Oh July, July, you jellied jamboree! How do you cram so many kittens into thirty-one days, like fireflies in a jar? Where did you buy all this sunshine? (It was not discounted on Amazon Prime Day.) Oh July, July, you paid full price, yet we are the ones rich in sweetness.
Charles and The Protocol
Someone recently described one of my best friends as “arrogant.” I can’t tell you if the accused was human or feline, and I can’t tell if it was an insult. But Charles can turn everything to a compliment, so he assisted me as OI (Orange Intelligence) on this post.