Category: cats

Pets Are Family: Include Them In Your Emergency Plan

Well hello there! It’s been a minute since I’ve been here. The freelance hustle is non-stop and, well, this became fallow land. Anyway, we’re at the height of hurricane season (not to be confused with Hurricanes Season, which will get underway in a few weeks). In fact, we already had Hurricane Dorian hit North Carolina a week ago. Thankful that...

It’s ALWAYS Cat Day Around Here 😸

Today is National Cat Day. I thought I’d celebrate some of the sweet kitties from Best Friend Pet Adoption. First, let’s celebrate some recent adoptions! Uno’s goofball brothers, Dos and Tres, are still available for adoption, as are many other sweet cats. And, of course, no Cat Day celebration is complete without honoring my best boys! Happy National Cat Day!...

Four Years

I couldn’t imagine my life without Simon Sebastien. Rather, I didn’t WANT to imagine living without him. Four years ago, my heart stopped beating as he took his final breath in my arms. I am forever changed. In good ways, for the time we had together. In not good ways because I’ve been trying to navigate life without my heart....

The Raleigh World: Month Seven

My, how time flies! It seems like I just wrote the six-month po…oh yeah. I was a bit late on that one, wasn’t I? Well, here’s to not letting another update languish in my Drafts folder for three weeks! So I did some stuff in my seventh month in North Carolina. I’m still working hard as a freelancer. That’s the...

I Know It’s Not Caturday, But…

I’m really trying to avoid turning this into a Cat Blog, but dangit, these boys of mine are so gorgeous! Also, it’s Adopt A Shelter Cat Month, so if you were thinking of adding some FLOOF to your life (highly recommended), check out your local shelters and rescue groups!

The Raleigh World: Month Five

Let’s just jump right into the #WeatherReportByVicster, shall we? So in Month Five I learned that the temperature and the dew point like to be twinsies and no matter what I pull out of my closet I’m basically going to be wearing the air for the foreseeable future. Also bugs. Big, nasty bugs. A couple of weeks ago I was...

How To Survive A Cross-Country Drive With Cats

In 2017 I made a life-changing decision to leave the San Francisco Bay Area and move across the country to Raleigh, North Carolina. There is so much that goes into planning a cross-country move, from finding a place to live to figuring out how to get you and your stuff from coast to coast. Figuring out how to get my...

#AdoptDontShop 🐾 On May 5th

A house is not a home without a pet hair roller on every table. This weekend you have the opportunity to make your house into a home: the Bissell1 Pet Foundation is holding an Empty The Shelters event nationwide on Saturday, May 5th. If you were thinking of adding a FLOOF to your home, this is a great weekend to...