A Good Cat Slapping
I’ve written some good stories over the years about our cat, Gabriel, Gabe for short. Gabe Spanks a Spider and The Shrinking Box Game to name a few. I thought I would set down and…
Gabe Spanks a Spider
Isn’t it funny that there are a lot of gray areas in our life, in our world. People might feel strongly about this or that, but usually (the quiet majority) there is a large population…
The Shrinking Box Game
There once was a cat named Gabriel who thought he might be part dog. when he was young he would run the house but later it became a jog. He shared his noble home with another.…
“Thou Art My Savior” and Other Fine Quotes From Starving Cats
My wife, Carrie and I nuzzled into a cozy small one bedroom apartment on the third floor of a courtyard-building on the upper northside of Chicago, known as East Rogers Park. We lived there for…
Cold & Naked
One cold, grey January day in 1997, I planned to paint the master bedroom at our house on the Chain-O-Lakes in northern Illinois. Our home at that time was a two story river house that…