Cats

  • Walter’s Garden

    The recent death of my 18½-year-old sleek black cat Neville — a girl cat with a boy’s name — made me think of poor Walter, another sleek and almost entirely black cat I have cared for (and about) in my life.  

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  • Fighting Cabin Fever

    It’s winter — or the roller coaster that may pass this year for winter in Central Connecticut, with fits of warm weather, occasional low teens, minor snow or ice, but still with a simmering risk of cabin fever. (Sometimes just knowing it’s winter is enough to keep a person bundled up indoors, busy on some…

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  • Stop for Flashing Lights

    It’s OK – I’ve driven a school bus before. Ninth Grade. Age 15, no license.

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  • There is no crankier mammal on the face of this planet that a grumbly black cat with a bone to pick about her name, who was probably rescued against her will. I’ve probably set myself up to explain a lot, but even that is really just the beginning of it, because we also forced a…

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