Tag Archives: Mike Shea

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

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Take Pride

Mike Shea once told me that he dislikes the term “guilty pleasure” because you should really own the things that make you happy, no matter how awful society will think you are. As a result, I don’t have any guilty … Continue reading

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Jelly Brain

….is a term first introduced to me by the venerable Dan Bregman, our New Zealand pal, pie-maker, bartender, all around good guy. It is a name for that fuzzy morning that follows a late night, when the world seems at … Continue reading

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Three in the bed, one on the floor.

I speak often of the luck, of the love I have in my life. However, I am feeling it keenly today, the morning after the night I conned three of my most beloved loved ones into having a slumber party, … Continue reading

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Keeping You in the Cat Loop [ PHOTO BLOWOUT]

All right, I been holding out on you lately, dear ones. This is because, during the month of August I had a total of seven (7) visitors for a total of twenty-nine (29) days, I rode approximately a million (1,000,000) … Continue reading

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Prepare Yourself,

things are about to get crushingly adorable in here. from JUDITH These delights are taken from a website called terriblycute.com, so we’re already off to a good start. Please, enjoy these selections from the fine, fine article called Tiny Animals … Continue reading

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Under Clouds

I am wondering, wondering, looking out at the sky, tired from 6 am bedtime and too much coffee and being so far removed from the life I want. I remember living in the under-renovation house on Washington Street and our … Continue reading

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All of Us

A good friend recently said (to a bustling table of our friends) that the best part about me is the group of incredible, caring, talented, hilarious, once-in-a-lifetime (okay, now I am just putting words in his mouth) friends I carry … Continue reading

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J4

God Bless America. Cats included. Kenneth is here visiting, Jono‘s having a taste of patriotism, Mike Shea and Roy played ping-pong last night, and Libby‘s making fairy bread. A thoroughly American day ahead. As my Camera Coon says, “be well”.

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Crossing State Lines

I am in a bus, surrounded by my worldly possessions, headed back to see my Olive and to thank my excellent cat sitters Quinn, Mike Shea, and Christina for their fortitude over these past two weeks. I have been gone … Continue reading

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