You have said goodbye to your sweet pet.  Maybe it was a cat you’d originally obtained as a neonate orphaned kitten that you decided to foster/hand-raise and after being weaned, it decided it would claw anyone else besides you to death, thereby becoming yours furever.  Or perhaps it was a dog you adopted when they […]

Yesterday was a trip to NYC for a birthday dinner celebrating my younger daughter Sawyer who was turning 12. She’s honestly the sweetest thing so I wanted to bring her to the sweetest place: Serendipity 3. I also evidently had a desire to spend an ungodly amount of money. Birthday girl’s dad joined up with […]

A silver lining in the trials of motherhood  (please read on if you have a preteen or teenage daughter): For Sloane’s 13th birthday, part of her gift was a 4/3 wetsuit and a trip for just her and me to Montauk at the The End of Long Island.  We surfed every day, saw seals so […]

Ok, so it’s very exciting the weather’s turning less wet, cold and dreary and we should be celebrating that summer has arrived at last. So why do so many of us feel like depressed and dejected losers? Like partially deflated balloons, with crinkled Mylar, nearing the ground, half-assed waving in the gentle covid-infused breeze.  It’s […]

Right meow, between COVD-19 and Easter, it’s really not the best time for cats.  Let me explain. When coronavirus panic first hit, there was a flood of general public confusion surrounding felines and their ability to contract and transmit this novel virus.  There is a long-known coronavirus cats can get (FCoV) but are they can […]