Need some kitty love?

Toad, Willow and Sullivan are looking for a good home.These three kitties are currently with Mary Anne Miller, central Oregon cat lover and all around earth angel.Mary Anne says the 10 week old littermates are beautiful…and full of spirit. If your heart and home can...

Paw Prints of Love

You’ve got to love a woman who tattoos paw prints around her wrist! This beautiful wrist belongs to Crystal, the counter employee at the post office who took care of my package this morning. Crystal explained the paw prints are for each of her special critters, and...

Squirrel lessons

He’s been coming to my yard for several weeks now. I don’t really know for sure that HE is a HE – it just feels that way to me.He crawls under the fence and drags his broken body up the hill. I can tell his eyesight is impaired, but he always finds the sunflower seeds...
Flowers from the Kitties

Flowers from the Kitties

If of thy mortal goods thou art bereft And from thy slender store two loaves alone to thee are left Sell one and with the dole Buy hyacinths to feed thy soul —Muslihuddin Sadi, 13th Century Persian Poet   I wrote those words on a piece of paper back in 1970,...
Just Molly and Me

Just Molly and Me

The first time I heard the word giveaway was back in 1995, two years before I wrote my book, For Every Dog An Angel. I was looking to leave corporate America so I could pursue a living that would satisfy my soul. With my beloved dog, Martha, by my side I felt certain...
Forever Paws

Forever Paws

Forever Paws takes the reader on a gentle and hopeful journey. The story begins by telling us that puppies and kittens are born with glowing forever paws, a wondrous gift that guides the critter to its special person and keeps them connected for all time. Using...
Farewell to Star

Farewell to Star

She came to me in May of 1998, along with her brother, Dickens, and her sisters, Pippen and Molly. She was just 3 weeks old – a little wisp of a kitty. She let it be known that she was never going to be a lap cat. Or a sleep on the bed cat. Or a curl up on the couch...

The Story of the Sword

I often wondered why a New Yorker would be called to carry a sword. It’s not as if I saw people carrying them on the subway, or waving them menacingly in Central Park. In fact, that was generally frowned upon. One night, she prayed to the stars in the night sky for...

Cats, Dogs and Dragons—My Cat Enclosure Reborn

  ONCE UPON A TIME I built a cat enclosure. It was spacious and sturdy and stood within a massive rock wall at the bottom of my sloped hillside. Jake, my magnificent Border Collie/German Shepherd Dog, and Dickens, Pippen, Molly and Star, the litter of kittens he...
Dragons!

Dragons!

There is something magical and mystical about dragons. They speak to my heart, hinting of perilous adventures that may – or may not – end well. You’re never really certain if you should turn your back on a dragon. Most people would probably choose to stand face to...