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30 Days of Photographs IV: Biblical
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30 Days of Photographs IV: Never
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30 Days of Photographs IV: Tolstoy
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30 Days of Photographs IV: Rising
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30 Days of Photographs IV: Lover
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30 Days of Photographs IV: Circle
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30 Days of Photographs IV: Happily Ever After
This month, I’m participating in 30 Days of Photographs IV. Each day, I’ll post a photograph representing a predetermined prompt. To see a list of those prompts and a list of the other participants...
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The Obedient Cat
I have spent a life time living with cats and I’ve yet to see one follow a direct command save for one notable evening in my college days. I was preparing for an evening class. Part of our assignment...
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Everything is Fine
Everything wasn’t fine. My cat, Seti, looked like he might possibly, maybe be sick. There was good reason for my neurosis. Seti has a chronic health problem that though under control, could prove fatal...
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It’s Not Brain Surgery
For fourteen years, I worked as a pet sitter. Many people think pet sitting is an easy job. In some ways, they’re right. It isn’t brain surgery after all. On the other hand, animals have a way of doing...
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The Ghost of Christmas Past Died Laughing
My earliest Christmas memory is of the year Santa left foot prints in the living room. Snowy boot prints led from the tree to the front door. I never questioned why the snow didn’t melt in our Georgia...
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Chosen
Roald Dahl once said, “A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it.” Dahl would know....
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Feline Philosophy
At 1 a.m., my eyes snapped open. A sound I had not heard in years roused me and ended all possibility of sleep. It was too insidious to contemplate, too horrendous to imagine. Though I had not heard...
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Concessions
It’s funny the things we’ll do and endure for our pets. My cat Seti uses me as his own personal Mt. Everest, and scales to the summit (my shoulder) at least once a day. I’ve learned the hard way that …...
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The Night Before the Living Dead Or How I Became a Zombie
It was three a.m. when I admitted defeat. The unholy sounds reverberating from my living room would have driven a lesser woman to murder, the ache in my shoulder yielded to no painkiller and the...
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Cat-astrophes
In his lifetime, our cat Hemmy tried to kill himself more than once. He swallowed a needle, picked a fight with a Labrador retriever and when I married Brian and moved in with two additional cats, he...
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Everybody’s a Comedian
Whoever first groaned the sarcastic phrase, “Everybody’s a comedian” was talking about my family. Other peoples’ childhoods are marked by such milestones as lost teeth and the first day of...
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Persistent Parenting
I woke to the news no parent wants to hear: my child was sick. By child, I mean cat, and by sick, I mean he was sneezing. (I don’t have human children. My “kids” all have four legs.) No one … Continue...
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Cat Got Your Back?
I couldn’t move. A dead weight held me immobile and refused to let me out of a supine position. I wriggled, desperate to break free. Though I could shift my own weight from side to side, I could not...
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