In the cat world, there are very few people that don’t recognize the name, Gwen Cooper, author of the the New York Times bestselling selling book, Homer’s Odyssey, which is about her blind cat Homer who transformed her life with his boundless capacity for love and his joy for life in the face of all obstacles. Gwen is a Miami native and she is in the midst of launching her tour for her newest book, Love Saves the Day. Read more

Dan and I no longer have young children living with us in the house, so hunting for Easter eggs is a thing of the past and we now hunt for fake mice the kitties hide under the couch before we vacuum, and instead of baskets filled with chocolate and toys, we have baskets filled with cats and cat toys!

One such kitty is our darling Mia who I thought was the purr-fect model to wish you all a Happy Easter! Even though she is tucked in a ratty basket of cat toys that are covered in cat hair, the toys and her tail give the illusion that she is wearing a beautiful feather plume hat that would be typical dress of someone going to an Easter Sunday service.

So, in that spirit, may you all have a blessed day and a Happy Easter!

The Buddhist practice of Zen involves living fully and authentically in the present moment to bring us face to face with our true original nature, unencumbered by cultural conditioning and stressful neurotic tendencies. Each moment is to be filled with a profound peace and clarity and is to have infinite depth and significance. This is achieved through deep mediation and no creature has mastered the practice of Zen more so than a cat. Read more

Today is the two year anniversary of the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan that resulted in killing some 19,000 people and triggered a devastating meltdown in the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. More than a million homes and businesses were destroyed or damaged by the natural disaster and of the roughly 470,000 people who fled during the initial catastrophe, more than 315,000 people still live in temporary housing. It will be headline news around the world for the day and then the event will fade into nothing but a distant memory to be replaced by the next headline. Read more

Last week I shared a very intriguing topic about cats and the concept of past, present, and future. As in, do cats have the capacity to think and remember in those terms, and the overwhelming response was, yes, they do. You all shared some great comments and stories about cats in your life which got me to thinking about the subject in greater depth, in particular with the behavior of my beloved, Zoey. Read more