Poetry: For Pet Memorial Sunday
I’ll be speaking a little later today about “The Joy of Pets”, adopting again after a loss, and especially remembering
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pet loss
The Portrait That Started it All
One night in early April, 1988, still with patches of snow on the frozen earth, a very small, very pregnant
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Cookie Love, and Making Memories
I originally posted this article at the end of August 2011 as Cookie and I intentionally spent a wonderful morning
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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
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Quiet Moments
It’s been a week just about to the moment that I let Kelly go, and all those of us who
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Where’er You Walk
So I had to say goodbye to another of my companions this morning, a shock, but not unexpected. Kelly went
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Pet Memorial Sunday 2012
The second Sunday of September is designated as Pet Memorial Sunday by the International Association of Pet Cemeteries and Crematories,
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The Other Big Four, a Moment in Time
My original text with this entry: My four girls! It’s Peaches, Cookie, Kelly and Mimi. Usually, it’s just my three
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I’ll Be Seeing You
Seeing Mimi settling down near Peaches’ portrait reminded me of another instance of a cat communicating with one of my
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