The Elliot Challenge
You may think you’ve unwrapped all your holiday gifts. You may think it’s all over but the cleanup. May I direct your attention to the snow-white wondercat awaiting you under the tree.
Unboxed
The calendar declares that today is Boxing Day. It is the day to box up well-intentioned hideous sweaters and return them to the Gap from whence they came. It is the day to punch the lights out of everything that snuffed our candles in 2022. It is not, however, the day to box up The […]
Spill light
When you fall over (and it is “when,” not “if”), what do you spill out? Anger? Compassion? Resentment that you are not eating enough mini meatballs? (I will let you guess which two out of those three apply to cats.)
Forever loved: Humphrey
What did Humphrey see with his marble eye? What will we see now that he’s passed from our sight?
Kitty LeFey’s Cosmos: Scheduling Chaos
As an office manager for an orthodontist, I spend a lot of time scheduling appointments. There are things I’d love to say, but generally don’t. For one thing, we schedule in 15-minute blocks, so someone arriving 10 minutes late can throw off our entire schedule. If someone arrives too early, they probably arrived during someone […]
You are not the last of your kind
If you ever wondered if yours is the last heart that bleeds and sings, often at the same time, be of good cheer: it is not. You have an entire village with hearts shaped like yours. It’s called Tabby’s Place.
Perennial stars
I recently came upon a headline, “What we still don’t know about black holes.” It made me think of perennial questions, and perennial plants, and the smart, short-lived flowers we call cats.
It came upon a midnight Cleo
We may not all affix antlers to our SUVs. We may not all wear neon butterflies in our middle-aged hair. But every living creature wants to be seen. Even Cleopatra.
Kitty LeFey’s Cosmos: Mirror Images
Sometimes we leave a place and are happy to have it behind us. Sometimes, though, that means leaving people behind, people we might prefer to keep. Circumstances may make it difficult to stay in touch, as might location and technical aptitude…or other things. Life in general is often the biggest thing that keeps us from […]
Present yourself
If Wilbur were in fifth grade, he’d be the kid who responded to roll call not with the standard “here,” but always: “present!” But that’s not because he’s obnoxious. It’s because he’s brilliant.