Last Saturday, October 15, 2022, the Cat Writers’ Association (CWA) held its annual communications contest to honor the pool of talent that represents excellence in writing, blogging, photography, graphic design, poetry, and more. Now the third year in a row as a virtual event, for those of you that missed it, but would like to watch the ceremony, you can enjoy the YouTube video to follow at the end of this post.

CWA president, Cassandra Morgan, hosted the event and a big round of applause for a wonderful production. The video started in honorarium to the Immediate Past President, dear friend and beloved by so many, Paula Gregg, who we tragically lost on May 2 of this year to pancreatic cancer. She will be forever missed and is a reminder to be kind and loving to one another, as you just never know when it will be someone’s time to leave this earth.

While I am a writer by nature, due to a variety of reasons, I’m not able to blog or write with any frequency any longer, but I still try to dabble in another passion of mine – graphic design – so I was thrilled to find out I won a MUSE award in the Photographic Art category for my 2021 Greeting Card Collection featured on my Zee & Zoey’s Cat Creations shop on Zazzle. The series featured:

Bengal Cat Happy Birthday (cat model: Zoey)

Ginger Cat Thanksgiving (cat model: Jazmine)

Black Cat Halloween (cat model: Shadow)

Bengal Cat Holiday Greeting (cat model: Zoey)

Black Cat Happy Birthday (cat model: Shadow)

I had a lot of fun designing the cards and if you want to see them, or any of my other card designs, t-shirts, mouse pads, and more, please visit Zee & Zoey’s Cat Creations (you can also click each card image to be brought directly to the shop). Zazzle frequently has sales, too, so don’t forget to look for discount codes before you shop!

Take care everyone, enjoy the ceremony, and congratulations to all the winners!

Jazmine – then and now. Happy Birthday precious one!

When we adopted Jazmine at the Global Pet Expo in March 2014, we figured her to be about 6 months old, so we christened her birthday as September 28, since we didn’t really know what day it was. Well, using that premise, today is her 9th birthday, which seems totally unbelievable to me! How in the world does time keep flying by so quickly? Regardless, every day with our princess has been a blessing and we wish her many, many more birthdays in the years to come.

Pretty Mia and her purrfect paws!

I must admit it. I’m completely obsessed with my cat Mia’s paws. There is just something about them. So precious, pretty, sweet, dainty, and adorably perfect, that I could stare at them all day. But her paws and the paws of all cats are so much more than something for me to fuss over. They are a multi-functional, highly intuitive part of a cat, integral to their very survival. Here are 10 fascinating facts about the pawsome paw: Read more

My Dearest Zee,

While it is true, I can now walk into the kitchen and see your empty food dish on the counter next to the seven others and not break into tears as I had been, remembering the 3 times daily ritual I would feed you from it, it does not mean my heart doesn’t skip a beat, missing you being a part of it. Read more

My office is a small, 12 x 11 square foot space. Some might describe it as claustrophobic, cluttered, and chaotic. Others, like me, would say it’s cozy, charming, and comfy. It’s home to several monitor screens, keyboards, and printers for both my personal and remote computer work needs. There are also mountains of books, photo albums, binders, cat trinkets and mementos, stuffed animals, awards, wall-hangings, a couch, lamps, desks, file cabinets, a chair, bookshelves, stacks of boxes with packing materials for my books, an exercise bike, and more. How all this fits into one room is beyond me. But it’s my space, it defines who I am, and I love it. So does Jazmine, as rarely is there a day she isn’t somewhere in the room with me. And speaking of Jazmine, did I mention the room also has a cat tree, cat beds, numerous pillows and blankets, and cat shelves on the wall? Read more