Category: Cats

  • A few items of summer

    It’s been a while since I last posted the picture of my cat screaming, and various things have occurred both before and after that, which I am aiming to catch up with and report here, in this dusty corner of the internet. Item One:  As of this summer, I have new literary representation in the…

  • Cat screams

    I have often told my friends that my cat, Kokoro (which in Japanese means heart or mind), screams at me for things.  Attention, food mostly.  But also just when he feels like it, he’ll just open his maw as wide as possible and let out a Tina Turner-like Big Wheels Turning-like note. Everyone says, Yeah,…

  • New Pics, New Blogging (maybe)

    My adopted Japanese mother recently complained that I no longer take pictures of things and post them online.  She questioned whether this was because I needed a new camera.  Maybe my old one no longer worked? And so when my birthday came, a package from Japan arrived at my house.  Inside the package was a…