Epilogues: August 2023
There must be some hidden hoard of helium in the walls of Tabby’s Place. How else to explain the ups and downs of August, our hearts bobbing like airships?
The mothership
There is a note on my desk reading, “Everything is really, truly OK.” You might say we whisper this over every Tabby’s Place cat. That would be half the story.
Epilogues: November 2022
Congratulations, kittens: you have reached Level 12 of 2022. We all know the final boss in the video game has the biggest teeth. We are all acquainted with December’s smile and its sharpness. Fortunately, one far greater than Super Mario is here to rescue us, and I don’t mean Santa. I mean one (hundred) cats […]
Kitty LeFey’s Cosmos: Of Pumpkins and Pachyderms
The first thing that comes to mind when thinking about elephants is not usually pumpkins. That is, unless you’re thinking about a zoo, specifically, the Oregon Zoo in Portland.
Epilogues: October 2022
O! Planet October, how did you enter our orbit? There we were, Septembering along like woolly bear caterpillars, when POOF! you filled the sky and turned our world upside-down. And now, O! October! Here we are with stars in our eyes and stomachs full of butterflies and so many shouts and sighs, I don’t know […]
Epilogues: January 2017
Everything old is new again. That isn’t, however, due to it being January. That’s due to the sunrise every morning, and the hope that years can’t hinder…and the cats that keep coming.
Guest post: Pawprints left by Pumpkin
Whatever we expect from them, cats excel at scrambling our expectations. Perhaps this is one of their great gifts.
Taking his lumps
There are many ways to soften a Monday morning. Wearing a giant yellow taffeta hat. Eating Dunkeroos for breakfast. Smooshing your face into the nearest cat belly (not recommended with certain bellies…yet). And, best of all: savoring one of the sweetest alumni reports my heart has ever seen. Like the best mashed potatoes, this adoptee’s […]