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Daily Photo Reprise: Mysterious Kelly, 2011

Yes, this is the photo I came to identify with A Little Bit About Kelly, little Kelly’s rescue story. Though I took the photo in 2011, Kelly is ageless in her petite stature, her tortoiseshell coat, her slightly uncertain expression, and she peeked around this wall at me for years.

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Mimi This Morning

On March 25, 2011, I fell in love. Or I realized I had fallen in love long before. Probably the first time I saw the tiny black cat out on the sidewalk, or later in my garden, or outside the basement door silently communicating with Kelly, or a dozen other

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From the Archives: Remembering Stanley

Sweet Stanley, on one of his last mornings, enjoys the winter sun to warm him and perhaps remind him of younger days. He was just about 25 years old. I haven’t written Stanley’s rescue story or much about him, partly because I’m working my way back from the cats who’ve

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Saying Thanks (Almost) Before Every Meal

Eager for her bowl at each mealtime her humble and reserved personality had other cats served first, but that gave me the opportunity to appreciate the anticipation on her face as I lowered her bowl to the floor in front of her, as if she still couldn’t believe she was

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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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The Balloon

Second in a series of stories about visitations for the Halloween season. One night in early April, 1988, still with patches of snow on the frozen earth, a very small, very pregnant cat politely but confidently asked me if she could come into my home to give birth to her

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Taking Sally Home

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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Vintage Photo: September Morning in the Garden

  What’s not to love? A tangled happy garden, a sleepy happy cat, lots of color and detail and sunlight. My garden kitty, Moses, enjoys her morning nap on the bricks in the shade of the beans, mid-morning in September. I’m fairly certain I took this in the late 90s,

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Perhaps the Storm is Finally Over, 2012

Hurricane Katrina, Namir, a household of cats and my personal creative inspiration Namir was the inspiration for The Creative Cat in January 2009, and while I had been posting articles once in a while for a few months prior to this article it wasn’t until I wrote this essay in

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Vintage Photo: Supervising the Harvest

From 2008, Cookie, as Garden Goddess, settles in a soft bed of tall grasses, violets and wild strawberries and autumn wildflowers at the edge of my pea bed to enjoy the dappled sun on an August morning and supervise my work. So far that year, the peas had done well,

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