You do load after load of laundry, grateful for the workhorse machine from a low-tech era and the hot Texas sun–ad hoc laundry assistant You drag the oriental rug outside, wash it like a corpse before burial, ask if it … Continue reading
The summer of 2018 was hard on us. We lost beloved kitten after beloved kitten. People in the community who fostered kittens talked about PTSD and loss. The agony of hope and grief was indelible, but so too was the … Continue reading
A couple years ago my family went through a pandemic. It was a bad year for kitten parvo or panleukopenia, and we were kitten fosters. We lost them all and watched the feral kittens at a local park disappear one … Continue reading
Six weeks ago we lost a beloved cat who was originally named Billie Holiday until she survived a traumatic near-death experience. We renamed her Miracle. When Miracle died suddenly I rushed to stuff meaning and hope into the place she … Continue reading
Scientists (at least the social ones) love to navel gaze at the belly buttons of the religious. I get it. We are a messy, heterogeneous bunch. As I get older I get less and less religious but more and more … Continue reading
I believe in regrief. I believe you and I will continue to regrieve the death of your mother. Recently we lost all four of our kittens to a fast moving, devastating affliction. In a week we went from joyful to … Continue reading
