Kitty LeFey’s Cosmos: Namesakes
There are two kinds of people in this world: those who like to give their cats traditional people-names and those who choose to not do that.
Open house
You have heard all the warnings. “Guard your heart.” “Look before your leap.” “Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.”
Epilogues: December 2025
Happy New Year, kittens. Let us make a pact, today, while we still have confetti in our whiskers and something called “egg nog” in our fridges. (How did it get there? Who invented it? Why have we never had a Tabby’s Place cat named Nog? I digress.) Here’s the plan: we will not permit this […]
Stories from Home: The Cautious Adventurer & The Vocal Superstar
Editor’s note: Do you love Lucy? Did our sunny snowball touch your heart? Prepare yourself. Your heart is about to grow ten billion times in size. Ready? Excellent. We’ll let Lucy and Claudius’s AwesomeAdopters take it from here. XO, AT
Lucy loves
In C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia, Lucy is the youngest and wisest of the children. She has not yet been infected with skepticism. She still believes in herself, so it is easy to believe in others. She still believes in love, so it is easy to be brave. The Lucy of Tabby’s Place is much […]
Epilogues: November 2024
No one gets out of November unscathed: not you, not me, and not the star-crossed onions who gave their lives to surf your Aunt Lurlene’s green bean casserole. Elections cause feelings. Thanksgivings cause feelings. The last chrysanthemum falling to the ground? The poet trees turned naked as prose? Feelings. Feelings. Feelings. The only cure for […]
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.
Ride the ecliptic
Take it from Lucy: today’s a good day to ride the ecliptic. It’s not like you have much choice. Which means you have one choice.
Epilogues: April 2023
T.S. Eliot, who first discovered that every cat has three names, declared April to be “the cruelest month.” Clearly he did not know the names of Mayhem, Crumpet, or Patches.
Epilogues: July 2019
Here’s something worth thinking about. If you meet someone named Gus, is it short for August, Augustine, Augustus, or Asparagus?