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Namir's sympathy card.
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Perhaps The Storm is Finally Over

August 30, 2020 Bernadette 1 Comment essay, hurricane katrina, namir, pet loss

Hurricane Katrina, Namir, a household of cats and realizing a lot about love after multiple losses. Celebrating Rainbow Bridge Remembrance

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Perhaps The Storm is Finally Over

August 28, 2018August 29, 2018 Bernadette 12 Comments essay, hurricane katrina, namir, pet loss

Hurricane Katrina, Namir, a household of cats and realizing a lot about love after multiple losses. Celebrating Rainbow Bridge Remembrance

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July-Cookie Picks Sweet Corn
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From the Archives and Vintage Photos: Cookie, Stanley and Moses, 2011 and 1988

July 23, 2018 Bernadette 2 Comments cookie, kelly, moses, namir, sweet corn, tortoiseshell cats

If there was any doubt that Cookie liked sweet corn, she proved it wrong every time I brought some into

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Namir at the door in the early evening of the day he was diagnosed.
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From the Archives: Situation Normal, August 29, 2005

September 3, 2017 Bernadette 0 Comments memories, namir, pet loss

Interesting things you find when you go back to look through photos from years before when the immediate memories have

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Perhaps The Storm is Finally Over

September 3, 2017September 4, 2017 Bernadette 0 Comments essay, hurricane katrina, namir, pet loss

Hurricane Katrina, Namir, a household of cats and realizing a lot about love after multiple losses. Celebrating Rainbow Bridge Remembrance

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Mimi in the garden.
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The Creative Cat July Newsletter: An Anniversary

July 6, 2017July 6, 2017 Bernadette 0 Comments lucy, marketplace, mimi, monthly enewletter, namir

Typically my monthly newsletter is a “preview” of new items for list members before I introduce them to the general

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Perhaps The Storm is Finally Over

August 29, 2016August 29, 2016 Bernadette 7 Comments cats, essay, hurricane katrina, namir, pet loss

Perhaps The Storm is Finally Over, written after I lost Namir whose passing represented what seemed like the end of a long cycle of loss that led me to understand the continuum of love all throughout our lives.

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Namir's "bedroom eyes".
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Rescue and Remembrance: Not a Bad Deal on a Pre-owned Cat

June 30, 2015July 14, 2015 Bernadette 17 Comments chf, feline affection, feline artwork, feline health, feline hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, feline photographs, hcm, namir, pet loss

Namir trots in anticipation down the length of my desk because a car has pulled up in front of my

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Not a Bad Deal on a Pre-owned Cat

July 22, 2012July 22, 2012 Bernadette 6 Comments euthanasia, feline affection, feline artwork, feline health, feline photographs, namir, pet loss

Two friends have cats who have been diagnosed with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, one recently and another a few years ago. I

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Perhaps the Storm is Finally Over

August 1, 2010 Bernadette 9 Comments feline hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, namir, pet loss, poetry

My July anniversaries of births, adoptions and losses have passed, and now in August it is time once again to

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    How to Photograph Your Cat, from 1955

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    I found this little gem of a booklet I knew I had somewhere in this house. A friend gave it

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    Vintage Cat Food Ads, and A Career Inspired By a Rescued Cat: Photographer Walter Chandoha

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    A Career Inspired By a Rescued Cat, Vintage Cat Food Ads, and Photographer Walter Chandoha

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    Cat Confessions: A "Kitty Come Clean" Tell-all Book by Allia Zobel Nolan
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