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Happy Meow-loween

This card, “We 3 Pumpkins” features prior year photos of jack-o-lanterns from the previously mentioned Panhandle Trail Night Walk. The Rennerdale Youth Group carves more than 100 pumpkins donated by various farm markets and grocery stores, and the Collier Girl Scouts set out and light the jack-o-lanterns along a half-mile

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Enter: Three WITCHES

When shall we three meet again? In thunder, lightning, or in rain? Guess the kids have been getting into my literature textbooks again. I thought my Riverside Shakespeare was too heavy for them, but there is no getting in the way of a determined reader. Now that they’ve mastered Act

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Your Kitty is a Star!

I photographed the Night Walk on the Panhandle Trail, featuring over 100 carved jack-o-lanterns! There’s always at least one kitty—this year there were two—but there was absolutely no moonlight so photographs were difficult. I thought this was the cutest, a kitty with stars! I wish I’d had more light for

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Little Visits

This is the third and final article in the series of articles about my cats visiting me in a spiritual sense, a collective of individual instances through the years. Working in my office/studio one evening, I heard the door of my refrigerator open—you know how you recognize these everyday noises—and

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Happy Meow-loween From My Mewsette!

This is Mewsette’s favorite costume! She didn’t even have to put on one embarrassing garment or accessory. Perhps Mewsette’s costume is honoring my alleged gypsy great-grandmother. When I attended Catholic grade school, we were to dress up as our patron saint for All Hallow’s Eve, and dressing up as St.

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Taking Sally Home

Second in a series of stories about visitations for the Halloween season. So many visitations happen around the loss of an animal companion that it’s difficult not to dwell on the loss itself—but that misses the point of the visit. They’ve returned to tell you not to dwell on their

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The Balloon

For the days prior to the Feast of All Hallowed, Samhain, the Day of the Dead and other celebrations of the dimming of the veil between this world and the next, I am sharing a few stories of visitations, the mysterious returns of my cats after they’d transitioned. None are

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Stacked and Mixed, A Lap Full!

So first Kelly was happily cuddled on my lap after a good thorough bath. Then Mimi finished observing the neighborhood from the shelf at the front window and stepped down from the desk onto my knee, settling down, overlapping Kelly. Kelly was okay with this. Then Cookie hopped up on

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Cookie in the Snow

Cookie has seen enough seasons come and go that she knows exactly what that white stuff is and what it means. Wet paws. Cold. Usually when we go out the door in the morning she heads right down the steps after a cursory inspection of the deck. But this morning

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Living Green With Pets: Bringing Plants Indoors

We had an unexpected snowfall overnight and this morning, and while I’ve known for weeks I needed to do something with my plants before they ended up as frozen mush, snowfall was decidedly a surprise. It was also better than the alternative at this time of year, a freeze, because

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