Baby New Year x125
2016 was a doer of some dastardly deeds. The New Year is still nearly formless and void. But a very good spirit is hovering over the waters here. It is the spirit…of birthday cake.
Gratuitous cat photos of the day: Love in the time of chaos
This year is in danger of being remembered for what it took. But woe to us if we forget what 2016 gave.
Crown the year with goodness
The measure of a year depends entirely on the scale. For thirteen lucky cats, 2016 was the grandest year of all.
Gratuitous cat photo of the day: Far as the curse is found
Holidays are terrific, terrible reminders of all the feelings you have ever felt. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, you are a cyborg. And you know and I know that you’re as real as life and breath and egg nog.
Gratuitous cat photo of the day: Repeat the sounding joy
If you’re a cat, or a three-year-old, you do not mind repetition. Make the feather fly again! Start the Doc McStuffins DVD again!
Gratuitous cat photo of the day: Let heaven and nature sing
With apologies to Santa, I’m asking the cats for gifts this year. Besides, I’d rather sit Bucca in my lap than personally sit in a bearded globetrotter’s lap any day.
Gratuitous cat photos of the day: I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
Far, far be it from me to fat-shame cats. To do that would require (a) that fatness was shameful and (b) that cats were capable of shame.
Gratuitous cat photo of the day: Lovable lump of Coal
When we were wee, we were told that good children got Popples and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Theologian Trading Cards.* Bad little imps, on the other hand, got lumps of coal. But the tellers of tales didn’t account for the game-changing gift of Coal.