What you cannot lose
You can lose the sight. You can lose the touch. You can lose what you thought was the entirety of your connection. But you cannot lose your anam cara.
Guest post: A blink and a nod
“Blink” is the title of the scariest, creepiest, horriblest, awesomest episode of Doctor Who EVER. (Unlike the magnificent benefactors Tabby’s Place relies on, not all angels are all that great.) “Blink” is the word (sorry, Grease) my friend from Bangkok confused with “wink.” Whenever she suggested we go to The Winking Lizard for wings, she’d […]
Slow it down
Cats can move faster than we can, physically. Cats can’t understand why we move so fast, mentally.
We make the rules
We are not in control.* We are not as powerful as cats. But we are not entirely helpless.
Guest post: Gimme a break!
I had one vacation day left. I really needed a vacation, but this just couldn’t cut it.
Maybe tomorrow
All twelve days of Christmas are long over. It is still winter. Much is over; much is yet to come.
Oh, Honey
Oh, Honey. You were ready for things to be permanently different. But here you are in 2021, still waiting.
Guest post: Half full
Eating season during an eating year (COVID 15 anyone?) leaves many of us in a perpetual state of being half full. This is true of our bellies and our minds. No time to fully digest everything before the next thing to swallow gets shoved down our throats or dumped into our over-taxed heads.
Rituals
How are you holding up, kittens? Are grit and grace and determination holding you together like so much magical nougat, or is the cheese sliding off your cracker?
Guest post: Shot
Syringe or jigger, vaccine or booze, if it was a shot, then 2020 was THE year. Personally, I prefer the jigger-kind and probably had a few too many tequila shots in college, but 2020 was very different.