The January Read 2024
So another year has rolled by. If you haven’t strolled past here before there’s a tiny bit of backstory to get through. Mysteries are so
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The Month of Cats
For the last four feline residents of this house, December has been the Coming Home month. The Month of Cats began when I fell in
The Five Levels of Grief
Photo by Marek Studzinski on Unsplash There are levels of looking into that void, the emptiness when you have lost somebody — something — that
Re-pair…
A friend recently and relatively artlessly started talking to me about this OTHER firend that she has – he’s in his early seventies, he’s
The Naming of Cars
Look, I name EVERYTHING. OK?I have nicknames for gadgets in the house, all the time. I’m in line with the “Naming of Cats” thing from
The Croning
So, I just has a birthday. A big on the big six-oh. It may or may not have been an official gateway to Cronehood but
The Nature of Grief
You can have many kinds of grief. You can grieve the loss of a job, a dream, even things (accidentally dropping and smashing a favourite
A Cat Called Avalanche: what I learned
So living with a Maine Coon – for four months and change now – has been a learning experience… let me count a couple of
Identity
I found something on FB the other day and reposted it for responses on my own wall – Couple of reasons why I tthrew that
The January Read, 2023
You may remember me writing about last year’s read and the tradition that led to that – but this year there it was, another Walt
The things we carry
I just saw this article on LitHub about the auction of the late Joan Didion’s personal objects and property – her shell collection, her eye
“And whose are you…?”
When I was a little girl running loose with my cousin in the dusty streets of the village where my grandparents had a house and
College of Sidekicks and Secondary Characters – Commencement Address
I wrote this a little while ago for a very specific purpose. But I just had a discussion with somebody about one of my “secondary”