The first Maria was Jesus’ mother. Given Anna’s three marriages, which I am sure was very unusual for a woman during those times, I wonder what else she had going for her – charm, a fun gal, maybe? That in turn brings me to thoughts of Jesus. When Charli and I were in ...
If the one person whom I would put first and trust would turn on me for no reason; if everything I’d worked for could be taken away by the county without a single shred of proof – even my ability to earn a living and my pets, it all seemed futile. I started to calculate exactl...
As if having two cats to look after and cuddle wasn’t enough, Gisela and Randall got kittens! Which of course meant kitten cocktail parties. Following one of Nancy’s walks in GG Park for a book she is working on. A month of San Francisco socializing done we got into a rental car ...
Something similar happened to me 4 years ago, about 3 months after Yia died. It was May 2005. Henry and Michele had just gotten married in Ireland. A few days after the wedding I flew to Paris with the Guineys and Jake. One day we visited their mother Louise, who was ill and losing...
“I’ve become a criminal, and there’s no turning back. What kind of mother am I that I would do this, that I would be this kind of influence on my son?”“The kind that takes care of business, Joy.” Darren pulled her into an embrace, shocking her. “You have to do what’...
children drowning at the community pool, has recurring dreams of watching someone drowning and forgetting how to rescue them. When I was pregnant with my first child, I had birth nightmares. I delivered a litter of kittens in one and a litter of puppies in another. (Talk about not ...
From 4 weeks post-partum, mothers bring their kittens a range of live and dead prey so that they can ‘play’ with different foods and develop hunting sequences (e.g., pouncing, grappling; species-specific hunting sequences needed to kill rats vs. bird etc. [102,103]). Kittens are ...