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Here at Cat Whisker Studio we are occasionally plagued by pests.  Oh, foolish, foolish mice that poke their wee heads up at CWS.  We have Chloe, an old mouser who now only watches the fun of the two younger cats. In her younger years, nary a mouse would dare darken our doorstep for fear of [...]

I’m reading The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry, set in contemporary Salem, Massachusetts. It is about a family of women who read people’s futures in a piece of lace.   As a writer, I appreciate the craft that went into the writing of this novel, the way Barry draws you in from page one and uses [...]

Here at CWS, we all try to stay in shape–whether that means stretching up high to claw a chair, running in circles after a coveted strand of yarn, or performing yoga contortions to lick . . .  I mean, reach those hard to clean places.  As the only human at the studio, I have to [...]