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WE’RE BACK
We have been many places. Since last writing I have filled my days with boxes and rooftops and kissing and crying and driving with the windows down and listening to Joy Division and driving with the windows up and listening … Continue reading
Posted in Olive, Sightings!, The Cats of Summer, Uncategorized
Tagged art, Brooklyn, James Joyce, Joy Division, Literature, Love Will Tear Us Apart, travel
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We the Couch Sleepers.
Total of five legs in this picture. Yesterday afternoon, the Madre y Padre de Jake drove their little green car from that thin stip of beach in Southern Maryland all the way to Brooklyn, or Mad Max Town … Continue reading
Posted in Charming Anecdote, Olive
Tagged ASPCA, Brooklyn, Iceland, Maine Coon, Southern Maryland
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Garbage World
I am drinking coffee with my back to the window; the day gets me through the screen and outside it feels green, lush, sunny, worthwhile, but I need to push through this last bit of work before it is summer … Continue reading
Olive in the background, eating flies.
I have just arrived home, my glass is full, and the sun is setting through the new leaves outside. There are only thirty more days that I will watch the light fade from these rooftops and walls. Tomorrow is my … Continue reading
Posted in Charming Anecdote, Olive, Sightings!, The Cats of Summer
Tagged Brooklyn, Cherry blossom, Maine Coon, Pratt, travel
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Counting Cars
Everything is coming up circles, these days. Hurtling toward Huntingdon late last week, late into the night, our headlights found roadside bushes, saw the gentle slope of grassy fields, the panels of weathered houses, too late for any lights to … Continue reading
Posted in Olive, The Cats of Others
Tagged Brooklyn, dead skeletons, house cat, Huntingdon, Maine Coon, PA, road trip
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Statement of Purpose
I am in the midst of a lengthy process. I am realizing that I will likely be in this process until I die. (Either prematurely or because the career path I have chosen is rife with instabilities and temporary employment.) … Continue reading
Posted in Charming Anecdote, Olive, The Cats of Summer
Tagged Brooklyn, Long Island Sound, Maine, Maine Coon, Maryland, MFA, Nebraska, New York, State College Pennsylvania, Upstate New York
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For Two Lovely Ladies
Despite what you might think about me, given my cat blog and volume of feline paraphernalia and my affection for Murder, She Wrote, I’m not super into pet birthdays….UNTIL NOW. Several months ago, right after we brought Olive into our home, … Continue reading
Posted in Olive, The Cats of Others
Tagged cat, cat birthday, Jessica Fletcher, Maine Coon, Mike Shea, Murder She Wrote, Soulistic Solutions
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Cliché of Myself
It is another grey morning with snow en route, we are told. The Bearded Companion and I are sick, sniffly, drinking hot Emergen-C, sneezing. I am stretched across our brightly patterned Mexican blanket and I am remembering that we … Continue reading
Posted in Cat Kitsch, Charming Anecdote, Olive, Sightings!
Tagged cat, Emergen-C, Jake Weller, Maine Coon, Ramen, Sneeze, West Virginia, winter
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Spring Break, Woo!
As previously mentioned, last week Jake and I set forth into the snow, to commence my spring break. We made a big triangle– an Amtrak ride west from Penn Station to Huntingdon, several days spent in sunny Central Pennsylvania with … Continue reading
Posted in Cat Kitsch, Charming Anecdote, Olive, Sightings!, The Cats of Others
Tagged Amtrak, Huntingdon, Maine Coon, Manhattan, New York, Pennsylvania, spring break, vanity plates, Vermont
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Their memories are what give them the need for other hands.
A poem I heard once spoken aloud by its author– for this rainy Brooklyn night. As my Camera Coon would say, be well. Wait by Galway Kinnell Wait, for now. Distrust everything, if you have to. But trust the hours. … Continue reading
Posted in Charming Anecdote, Olive
Tagged galway kinnell, Maine Coon, poetry, rain, SAWK Photography
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