To love that well, which thou must leave ‘ere long
In January 2010 I organized my thoughts on pet loss and began writing articles to fill the outline of what
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kublai
Featured Artwork: Sunbath, a 1983 Moment, a 1993 Painting
A study of winter sunlight, because there’s a cat in it. It’s a very simple scene: a black cat having
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Vintage Photo: The First Cat Photo Taken in This House, 1991
Yes, it took me until the next year to photograph pretty much anything in my house, let alone any of
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The Artist’s Life: The Splendor of Autumn
I looked up at the clouds and thought, “They look just like those clouds… .” I posted the first draft
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The Narrowing Path
“Just keep him comfortable.” It sounded so easy, but often it’s the most difficult part of the journey, physically and
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Vintage Photo: Girl and Cat Meet Camera, 1983
This photo is from the very first roll of film I shot with my fully manual Pentax K1000, my first
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The Cats in My Garden
Years ago, while I was still working in my day job, I also did a fair amount of freelancing in
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Featured Artwork: Sunbath, a 1993 Painting of a 1983 Moment
A study of winter sunlight, because there’s a cat in it. It’s a very simple scene: a black cat having
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The Feline Therapist
In the studio I turned around to see three black cats lazing about in the sun on the landing, and
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Friends at the End
In early 1996 it became clear that Kublai wasn’t recovering through strictly medical means from the mystery illness that had
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