Category: Animals

  • DOORSTEP

    Tonight, four years ago, I almost tripped over a tiny kitten on the garage step. For some well-timed reason, I looked down before I stepped, and two large, dark, highlighted eyes and a milk-drop nose turned up toward me. Long story shortened, the kitten adopted me, and I adopted him. Since I’d been watching a…

  • HE WAS A BRILLIANT GODDAMN HEDGEHOG

    “We have no idea what we don’t know, or what we’ll eventually learn, or what might be true despite our perpetual inability to comprehend what that truth is.” -But What If We’re Wrong?: Thinking About the Present as If It Were the Past by Chuck Klosterman That statement might seem gloomy to some, but I…

  • EDDIE CHEDDAR, Year Three

    Three years ago last night, or sometime before that night, someone, in the company of an adorable, tiny, filthy, ear-mite-ridden, wounded-lip kitten, left that kitten – the veterinarian would later presume − in front of a neighborhood. The kitten spent at least Halloween night on his own in a world full of cars and kids…

  • NEW YEAR

    That was a damn tough year. I’m trying to think of the parts that weren’t tough, and to understand that the hard parts helped me grow and learn. I wrote poems, not many, but more than I wrote the past few years. I cooked a lot and made up new recipes, and tried others’ recipes.…