Don’t take the bait
On this blog, we regularly discuss ways in which we aspire to be more like the cats. They are our swamis, our sherpas, our saints and our scholars. Except when they most decidedly are not.
Forever loved: Willem
If you always expect the worst, you will be pleasantly surprised. If you always expect the best, you will be pleasant, period. And if you always expect that tomorrow just might be your birthday, you will approach the pleasure known only to cats.
Forever loved: Faye
How do you catch a comet with a fairy-tale white tail? How do you shoehorn poetry into prose? How do you do justice to a giant of glamour and grace? You don’t. You simply behold, breathtaken and besotted. And in the case of Faye, you hold your beloved even when she’s slipped your arms.
Old maps don’t work
A name like “Infinity” is quite a figure-eight of expectations. But maybe when your name is Infinity, it’s easier to remember your limits are limited, and skate accordingly.
Epilogues: July 2022
Show me your stars. Show me your stripes. Show me your scars from that most American of solemnities, Amazon Prime Day. (If you somehow escaped without an unexpected Echo, you are a stronger specimen than I.) Show me your love for the cats, loud and large and juicy as a peach. Actually, you already did. […]
My friend Glenn
My friend Glenn moved into the Development Office this week. My friend Glenn is moving all the furniture in my heart.
Curiosity saved the cat
Curiosity may, in fact, save the cat. And I do not necessarily mean the feline.
Off hold
We can take “self-deprecating” — humor or otherwise — too far. We can, and we do. Cats can, and they don’t.
Free the foods
Not everything free is worth the price. If someone offers you free advice, a free towel emblazoned with the faces of all five members of N’Sync, or a “free food,” you’d best consult your most trusted advisors. By whom, of course, I mean the Law Offices of Baby, Albus, Cola and Hagrid.
Charly’s dear life
I’m sorry, Charly. I’m sorry you thought you had a handle on life, but it snapped right off the door. I’m sorry that open doors closed. I’m not sorry to see you again.