Your Pet/ PUSSN BOOTS!

Lori, owner of the lovely “tuxedo” cat in our photo today, named him Pussn Boots after the children’s story. I’m sure Lori’s kitten is a swashbuckling fellow. I remember my mom reading that story to us as children and how much I loved hearing about that brave cat’s adventures. But I have to admit that…

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FIRE

Wild Word Friday! Harrison Summer Memories… I cannot site any linguistic source to back my claim, but I’m sure that one of the first words in any human language was FIRE. I can, however, cite a very ancient word that has come down to English through thousands of years nearly unchanged from the Indo-European language…

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KEMPY

Wild Word Friday! I’m a weaver. I’m not a great weaver, just a hobbyist, but I’m always amazed when the magic of a warped loom coaxes weft threads and yarns into lovely fabrics, and I’m always amazed when I think of those first weavers who came up with the idea of cloth. Wow. When I…

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GOBLIN!

Wild Word Friday! Do you remember when you were a kid and there was something absolutely delicious about being pretend-scared? Not truly afraid, just pretend-scared. When children go out to trick-or-treat, they dress up like monsters and GOBLINs and black cats and ghosts and pretend to be scary, and, when they come to our doors…

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Roscoe!

Roscoe, Friend him on FaceBook! I recently asked my friend Arlene Coulter if I could feature her dog Roscoe on Your Pet!  Her reply made me laugh, and I thought all the Your Pet! readers would enjoy what Arlene wrote: “My second son was in college when he fell in love… with Roscoe. At the…

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