Feline Lullabies
As composed by The Four-Year-Old. Designed to be sung as loud as you can, preferably while petting an actual cat, if you can get any to…
The etiquette of meeting a Pharaoh
School Vacation Week is still going strong over here at Caterpickles Central. And as all Truly Relaxing Vacations require, we are keeping ourselves willfully blind to…
In which The Four-Year-Old discovers the pure unadulterated joy that is…
… a new-to-you pair of white leather cowboy boots. The Four-Year-Old, jumping up and down in the vintage store during the test run before purchase: “These…
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When in denial, beware the jellyfish
Grandpa: “Many people just stick their head in the sand and just don’t want to know things.” The Four-Year-Old, aghast: “Stick your head in the sand!…
“Mommyo, what does ‘gravitationally improbable’ mean?”
gravitationally improbable (grv-tshnˈalē m-prb-bl) adj. phrase that which is unlikely to occur outside of Kitty World due to the limiting effect of gravity Example: The Four-Year-Old’s…
In which The Four-Year-Old invents a new feline punishment
One of the few problems with having cats is that it makes doing yoga at home a hazardous occupation. Mulberry in particular takes fiendish delight in…
“What does gy-normously hungry mean?”
Mommyo, as she prepared to dish out The Four-Year-Old’s oatmeal: “The Four-Year-Old, are you a little hungry, very hungry, or so enormously hungry you could eat…
Mental Math
Mother, graciously interrupting her own story to introduce the cast members to The Four-Year-Old: “We are talking about my cousin, who you probably don’t remember, because…
The trouble with nature shows
The trouble with nature shows is that watching them makes the Four-Year-Old very curious. Which means I spend an awful lot of time looking at pictures of things I wish I didn’t knew existed. But they also prompt some wonderful questions.
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