The once-stray cat helped a London heroin addict turn his life around and inspired an international bestseller.
For anyone who thinks cats don’t make amazing companions…
Enjoying a delicious French dinner at the charming Caprice Bistro with family downtown. Ignore the wine-stained mouth 🙂
Random political thought…
All this news on embassy closures and intercepted terror threats feels like excessive political posturing to me. It feels like a) the administration is trying to cover its ass and prevent another Benghazi, and b) they are trying to defend the likes of PRISM and distract from the NSA scandal by “showing” everyone that we need it and it’s working.
Not to say the threats aren’t real, but all the press coverage and big glossy statements seem a little sketchy/showy not to have a self-serving agenda behind it…
“You are very Lilly today!” My less-than-fashion-forward boss 🙂 #lillypulitzer #pink #green (at Great Wilmington Chamber Of Commerce)
Annie and I chirping a very deep conversation #catsofinstagram #cat #meow #instavideo #myveryfirst
On this day two years ago, I welcomed Chuck home from his first #deployment to #Afghanistan. Today, it’s extra special to so recently have him back from his second 😊#tbt #throwbackthursday #usmc #milso #military #freedomisntfree #homecoming
Cat: 1 Chuck: 0
Today I get a call from Chuck at work, and he’s telling me how Annie escaped outside and he’s been looking all over and he can’t find her anywhere. I tell him to try calling her name up and down the street and hopefully she will come, since she’s fairly responsive to that.
I get home all ready to go help him look for her, and Chuck is like, “I have no idea where she went. I checked the whole house and I walked around the neighborhood twice calling for her and she wouldn’t come.”
Who walks out of the bedroom at that very moment, but the Bean herself, looking at us both like we are the biggest fools. Chuck’s face was priceless – from adorably distraught, to adorably flabbergasted. Annie’s expression was purely haughty and freshly cat-napped.
Anyway, you’d probably have to be there… but it gave us a good laugh. 🙂
Dangit! I missed my chance at fame and fortune. Not that I claim to be “extremely hot hot hot”, but I can legit pole dance, and I live right in Wilmington.
Oh well! Would have doomed Chuck’s and my career prospects anyway 🙂
There are no Jack Kerouacs or Holden Caulfields for girls. Literary girls don’t take road-trips to find themselves; they take trips to find men.
“Great” books, as defined by the Western canon, didn’t contain female protagonists I could admire. In fact, they barely contained female protagonists at all.
It’s Frustratingly Rare to Find a Novel About Women That’s Not About Love – Kelsey McKinney – The Atlantic (via oditor)
Hadn’t thought about it, but it’s true.
Cage-Free Viewing
I understand that zoos and aquariums bring animals to people who might otherwise never see them. But we live on a continent teeming with wildlife, at least in some places. Many of our native animals can be seen wild and free. Here are seven of the most rewarding places in North America to view wild animals. Everyone will have their own choice of the very “best” place, but these locations, selected for their abundance of animals, natural settings and relative ease of access, are among the continent’s most recommended. Photo: Creative Commons / Ashley Coates
The more I think and read about zoos and places like Sea World, the more opposed I am to wildlife in captivity. The problem is, it’s SO great/educational to see wild animals up close and personal!
I found this link that lists some places where you can enjoy cage-free viewing, and I hope that when I have kids and am tempted to take them to Sea World, I remember these au naturel options instead.
Wildflowers & Whimsy 