Felix the Stray « M.K. Hobson

My boyfriend needs a new home

Here’s the deal. It’s time to find my boyfriend “Felix” a new forever home. As you recall, I found Felix in a box near the Clackamas River—scratched up, three-quarters starved and massively flea-ridden. I took him to the vet, got him de-flea-ed, and have been feeding him copiously for the past few months. Now [...]

I have a new boyfriend

And he is a cat. Yes, it turns out that Felix, the boy-cat that I rescued from Clackamette Park, is the smarmiest little dude I’ve ever met. If he were a skunk, he’d be Pepe Le Pew. See, he’s decided that he simply ADORES me. This weekend, while I was doing page proofs, he [...]

Hellzapoppin'!

That’s what my life feels like at the moment. A bit of Hell, lots poppin’, and an exclamation point at the end. Let’s see, what’s going on:

1) “Felix” has taken over our house. Seriously, I’ve never seen a moggy make himself more at home more quickly than Felix (we settled on “Felix” because [...]

State of the Cat

As expected, daughter has taken the young stray under her wing and is spoiling him rotten. I have told her she can’t let him loose in the house until we’ve gotten him really checked out, but he can come inside in the carrier. So she carried him around with her in the house all [...]

Copyediting and Cat Rescue

Well, the copyediting is mostly done. It was a quite a bit more grueling than I expected it to be. Sitting down and reading your own work that closely is like examining your face in one of those super-high-magnification mirrors. Pretty ugly. You come across some desperately infelicitous crap. But thank God, you get [...]

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