My cat Punky brings me gifts at least twice a week. He’s been doing this for several years and, even though the gifts are usually trinkets from neighborhood garbage cans or incomplete grasshoppers, I appreciate the thought.
It started with pine cones. Every few days I’d find a pine cone on the mat outside the back [...]

For some reason, a lot of men find it challenging to their masculinity to admit liking cats; we’re supposed to like other, more guy-oriented things like dogs, or vaporizing watermelons with fully-automatic weapons.
But, not me. I love cats.
…most of the time.
Truly, the only time cats really get on my nerves is when I’m trying [...]

I live in a pretty nice neighborhood. There are a few semi-crazy neighbors, but they are mostly just crazy enough to be charming. Of course, there are a few that do insane things like practice the bagpipes at 2:30 in the morning or believe that lighting 300 full-sticks of dynamite is the proper response to [...]

I took a great photo of a cat once. After seeing it, I wondered why it turned out so nice while nearly all of the other photos I’ve ever taken resemble the work of a moderately trained chimpanzee.
After reading a few nature photography books and studying them a bit, I have an idea as to [...]