The tune
“The one who pays the piper calls the tune.” – classic idiom “The one who loves the Piper hears music all day.” – Tabby’s Place “I accept compensation in the form of Venmo, Velveeta, and infatuation.” – Piper
Beautiful enough
It appears that, contrary to our entire cultural education, being beautiful is not enough. It may get you a Pixar prince. It may splash you larger-than-life on the billboard. It may even offer you the opportunity to “influence.” It will not get you adopted.
Fergentine’s Day
Fergie enjoys being enjoyed. So do I, when I’m honest. You only get to be a Valentine when you’re honest.
The Big Meal
We’ve been awaiting you. We’ve been preparing for days. Can you smell the heavenly aroma?
Kitty LeFey’s Cosmos: Old Friends
Treasuring our elders is something we do very earnestly at Tabby’s Place. It is the quintessential multi-generational home.
Forever Loved: Durin
In astronomy, the brightest and most powerful known object is a quasar. In Quinn’s Corner, the brightest and most powerful object was a delicate-looking cat.
The acedia of Charles
There is a time to spin, and a time to sprawl. A time to toil, and a time to turn into a tide-pool of molasses. A time to care, and a time to care less. A time for acid rock, and a time for acedia…feline edition.
Kitty LeFey’s Cosmos: A Place Oddity
There are sentences one would never expect to hear. Weirdly combined nouns all mashed up with verbs that don’t seem to work together? Such things are commonplace at Tabby’s Place.
We do talk about Bruno
We sing abundantly at Tabby’s Place. (Jonathan would nominate a different adverb.) We sing passionately at Tabby’s Place. But we must repent of singing falsely at Tabby’s Place.
Epilogues: January 2024
Happy First and Last February Second of 2024! Maurice and his confrères welcome you to the new. Cats love new years. They love them so much, they celebrate them on a rolling basis. But cats hate resolutions. They hate them so much, they are here to save us from them, at great personal cost.