deep thoughts

Instructions for freedom

Welcome to Tabby’s Place, new cat! You’re here! You’re ours! There are not exclamation points in New Jersey to express the full extent of our joy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We don’t mean to alarm you. Please pardon our fireworks. It’s just that you exist, and we are excited. You see, new cat, we’ve been expecting you. You’re the […]

Surely

A cynic is nothing but a broken heart with scar tissue. Don’t tell them I told you. They might not like the implication: that they can heal. Just listen when they claim that nothing in life is certain. Listen, then tell them the story of Shirley.

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 […]