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What Frances Has Been Up To
Frances and Abby have become fast friends. There is a great deal of somersaulting and springing and pouncing as well as wrestling and air biting. Frances loves Fergus best, but he is playing hard to...
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Frances in Five
Not sure if you can see, but there are three cats in the dog bed in this photo.
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A Week in the Life of Frances
You never know where you might find Frances: I turned my back on this pot for just a second to grab a bowl of vegetables I was about to cook, turned back to dump them in, and instead found a kitten:...
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5 Things I Loved About Last Week 12/28/13 #Celebratelu
Join the Celebration over at Ruth Ayres’s blog! This hasn’t felt like the most celebratory week: I came down with the flu ON CHRISTMAS DAY and have been so wiped out THAT I HAVEN’T EVEN FELT LIKE...
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5 Things I Loved about This Week: 1/4/14 #Celebratelu
Visit Ruth Ayres’s blog to see what others are celebrating this week. 1. The week is over! Is that an okay thing to celebrate? We’ve had a verrrry long winter break here, and I’m so ready for the kids...
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5 Things I Loved about Last Week #Celebratelu
Visit Ruth Ayres’s blog to see what others are celebrating this week. I am really enjoying my classes this semester. So three of my celebrations focus on things that happened at work. (And feel free...
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Celebrate Cats! #celebratelu
I’m participating in Ruth Ayres’s weekly Celebration. This week, I’m celebrating cats! I haven’t posted any cat photos for awhile, and I am sure that all my readers have been wondering what has been...
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Celebrate: Caturday 2/28/15 #celebratelu
It’s been a difficult week and a difficult Saturday. I’ve sat down to write this post several times and just can’t get it done. It’s supposed to be a celebration–only I keep falling into complaint. In...
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Links I Loved Last Week: A Round-Up of Online Reading 12/13/15
This week, I’m celebrating my students’ work and sharing some of their blog posts that I’ve enjoyed most over the past couple of weeks. If you have a moment to click through and leave a comment, I...
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Acrostic #NaPoWriMo18 #NPM2018
Who can say cats aren’t holy? Spirit incarnate living poem sacred offering modern totem or maybe the god of love himself come to earth. Notes: My favorite cat, Chipotle, inspired this poem. There he...
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This Is Just to Say: Notes From a Cat #NaPoWriMo18 #NPM2018
I have sat on your keyboard and erased the message which you had spent twenty minutes writing Forgive me the keyboard felt so warm on my cold paws. ************ I woke you at four a.m. with piteous...
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Introducing Oliver: Slice of Life #sol18
Believe it or not, I wasn’t looking for another cat. We had eight already, and yes, they’re all indoor cats, and even though I really, really, REALLY love cats, even I thought that eight was enough....
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Living Ornaments: Slice of Life Haiku-A-Day Challenge #18 #sol18
When I was a child, I thought that artificial Christmas trees were the strangest things. Why display a plastic tree when the real thing was all around, just waiting to be turned into Christmas? The...
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Sleeping Arrangements: Slice of Life #sol19 6/31
Smudge is the first to arrive and the last to leave. He waits for me to lift the blanket, then he darts underneath, circles once, and curls into a crescent with four cold feet pressed to my side....
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11 Things About Chipotle: Slice of Life #sol19 7/31
I was working on some other ideas for slices this morning, but nothing was coming together. I was bored by my own writing. Everything seemed ho-hum and blah. So I decided to try a format I’ve already...
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Coffee Shop Cat: Slice of Life #sol19 12/31
This is Toddy. He’s a plump, slightly scruffy alley cat who began hanging around behind my favorite coffee shop. The owner took him to the vet and got him neutered, and then one cold day invited Toddy...
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Lap Cats: A Photo Essay Slice of Life #sol19 21/31
Now that my mother has her new (my old) iPhone, we have gotten into the habit of texting each other with cat photos every morning. A “here’s the status of my lap, what about yours?” kind of thing. As...
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