“Love is found in unexpected places. It is there in the quiet moment when we first discover a beautiful thing. When we watch a bird soar high against a pale blue sky.” Love is a Special Way of Feeling by Joan Walsh Anglund This book, Love Is a Special Way of Feeling by Joan Walsh […]
The Boy Who Drew Cats
“Whenever he found himself alone he drew cats. He drew them on the margins of the Priest’s books, and on all the screens of the temple, and the walls, and the pillars. Several times the Priest told him this was not right, but the boy did not stop drawing cats, he drew them because he […]
Cat and Mouse’s Christmas Poem
“Cat gifted Mouse scraps of yarn from his ball. Mouse gifted Cat a felted acorn he found last Fall.” Cat and Mouse’s Christmas Poem by Phebe Phillips This poem was written in 2018 by Phebe Phillips. It is an annual reading on this podcast. In this episode Phebe Phillips reads her delightful poem, Cat and […]
Charles, About the Naming of Cats
“I’ve had large families of cats. Among them many memorable personalities. I’ve been greatly attached to perhaps a dozen cats in the last twenty years, but of all my cats, there has never been a cat like my first Siamese, Charles O’ Malley.” The words of writer, journalist, and publisher, Michael Joseph Charles, The Story […]
Ep-01 Cleveland Amory’s, The Letters
“If there was anything on Cat-Earth about which Polar Bear prided himself, it was how smart he was.” Cleveland Amory, The Cat and the Curmudgeon Welcome to the first episode of The Literary CatCast Podcast. After seeing Cleveland Amory with his white cat, named Polar Bear, on a national morning show in 1980, I rushed […]