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Tag Archives: grief
Insightful things The Five-Year-Old says at 8:59 a.m.
Exactly one minute before I was due to drop The Five-Year-Old off at kindergarten this morning, she said something remarkably insightful. But before I get to that, some background. A week or two before Christmas, The Five-Year-Old watched Star Wars … Continue reading
Let me explain what you are going to see on Caterpickles this week
The recent events in Newtown are crushingly sad. So sad that I didn’t think about Caterpickles after I heard about it, and you will have seen a couple of posts go up that I had already scheduled before I heard … Continue reading
Snap out of it, Mommyo!
Another in my backlog of Mulberry posts: On the drive home from putting our cat Mulberry down last March, Mommyo, plaintively: “I don’t think I’m going to post on Caterpickles for a while.” The (then) Four-Year-Old, with great distress: “But … Continue reading
Posted in Funny Stuff My Daughter Says
Tagged Cozy the Cat, grief, losing a pet, Mulberry the Cat
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How The Five-Year-Old helped me understand the Victorian practice of posing with their dead
Earlier this week while doing some of the never-ending research for my novel-in-progress, Asylum, I came across memento mori, the Victorian practice of posing their dead for photographs. At first, I labeled this as just one more in a long … Continue reading
Posted in Miscellaneous Musings
Tagged grief, loss, memento mori, Mulberry the Cat, photography, Victorians
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In which The Four-Year-Old tells it like it is
The loss of a pet is tremendously sad. But even in the most heart-breaking moments, life with The Four-Year-Old forces you to make room for laughter. Scene: The animal clinic, moments after Mulberry’s death. Mommyo is cradling Mulberry on her … Continue reading
Posted in Funny Stuff My Daughter Says
Tagged cats, grief, loss, Mulberry, when a pet dies
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R.I.P. Mulberry the Cat, January 1995 – March 2012
A Very Fine Cat Indeed. Mulberry’s Caterpickles Career (to date*): In which The Four-Year-Old invents a new feline punishment Kittens! Knitting! Dinosaurs! Oh My! In which my daughter channels Mary Poppins In sickness and in health In which The Four-Year-Old … Continue reading
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