A Cat By Any Other Name

      Still life with cats: the story of me

 

April 1, 2007

Exhale

I may smile and nod and come up with the occasional vaguely witty thing to say, but deep down inside I am still that shy and awkward girl I was all through childhood…

 

April 2, 2007

Date

I hope that all of us - Richard and I and the cats - can get through this and that we are doing the right thing.

 

April 20, 2007

Closing in

…and then I thought about how much on that list still really needed to be done and I gulped down some coffee and then I went into overdrive in a desperate attempt to see how much I could actually accomplish in four short hours without driving either myself or Richard completely insane.

 

April 22, 2007

Fresh coat

Books, I have decided, have a unique property unlike anything else, in that the more you pack away in boxes, the more still remain on the shelves, until you wonder if you actually just imagined packing them all up and if the stack of sealed boxes in the garage are just full of very heavy air.

 

April 24, 2007

Steps

I suspect that tomorrow morning there will be more priming in my future.

 

April 25, 2007

Pachydermis

It makes me want to put a little bistro set out there so we can drink coffee in the morning and listen to the birds in the tiny little forest in the neighbors’ back yards, and watch the picturesque farming equipment rolling around in the fields past the end of the street.

 

April 27, 2007

Down to the wire

…and even though it was technically still Thursday when we signed them, it was only because we squeaked in under the wire with a few minutes to spare.