October

Author’s note: I have been looking for this bit for a while now! Evidently, I wrote it in the late nineties because I couldn’t find it on any of my computers, and the printed copy that I eventually discovered is in dot matrix. Here it is, verbatim, except for one parenthetical insert in the last […]

All pets go to heaven

My niece Helen was quite young when one of her family’s beloved cats died. When her mother, my sister Laura, tried to explain what had happened, Helen became very thoughtful and said, “he must be licking butter off Jesus’ table.” What a heart-squeezingly beautiful image this comment conjures up. More recently, someone suggested to me […]