My lovely blogging friend Karen at Karen & Gerard Zemek has a neat post about pets. Their dog, Abby Dabby Doo (don’t you just LOVE that name!) was featured in their local Ohio newspaper. So Karen decided to give every pet the chance to be famous with her Pet Blog Hop. It looked like fun [...]
Tag Archives: polydactyl cats
Polydactyl Paw Prints
January 14, 2010
Ever wonder what polydactyl kitty paw prints look like in the snow? Wonder no longer: I took the Snow Queen outside today. Got sick and tired of her sniveling at the doors and windows! That’s her paw print to the left, partially on top of one of our other “normal” cat’s paw print. I love [...]
Cat Furs Come and Go….
November 17, 2009
…but whiskers never fade. When Livvy was a baby –about 6 or 7 months old– she got a little too close to a burning candle. I know! Yikes! Her eyebrow whiskers got singed just a little, and they shriveled and curled at the tips. It’s been almost a year since that incident, and LOOK! She [...]
Every Writer Needs a Cat
September 24, 2009
Every good writer needs a cat, especially a polydactyl cat. Cats cultivate creativity, didn’t you know? Cats sit in front of you while you work, clogging up your computer monitor and keyboard with silky cat fur. Dogs don’t do that. Cats nuzzle your chin and sweetly beg for requited love when you’ve got a deadline [...]

I’m a married mom with 4 kids. We live in Upstate New York in an old 1855 house with our five pets (yes, five, *sigh*). Life is never dull, and exciting things just seem to always happen to me... why me... when I'm not running around the house fixing things, I do freelance writing and blogging. My work and opinions have appeared in Salon.com, USAToday, eHow.com, iMedia.com, the Associated Press and I've even been interviewed by TIME and The Wall Street Journal about blogging. Can you believe it?! Here is where I express my zany, creative, motherly side. 










August 7, 2010
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