National Black Cat Appreciation Day: It still matters

Black cats face lower adoption rates and higher euthanasia rates despite their abundance and even potential disease resistance. Prejudice against them remains strong, leading to frequent neglect and mistreatment. Black Cat Appreciation Day hopes to stop that bias.

How an Opossum Healed a Haunt

That little wet and bedraggled baby shone his light onto a deep, haunted wound and showed me that my part of that haunted space could heal now because the rest is healing, too. It is a big release to let a ghost go. To let that much darkness go. To cleanse a haunting.