Grooming Time

My cat Olivia has taken to “grooming” me while I’m writing. She sits on the back of my chair and starts to sniff and nudge my head. For some reason, my hair is most attractive when it is half wet and half dry after a shampoo.


If I lean forward, she reaches out and tangles her claws in my hair to pull me back toward her.

Then she starts licking my hair.


I swear she would do this all day and night if I didn't constantly thwart her attempts to become a salon diva.

Meanwhile, Matilda sits with all her 15 pounds wedged between my back and the chair, in her continuing effort to make me a hunchback. I couldn’t get a picture of that, but I did get a picture of her making herself comfortable in the chair, which she does every time I get up for more than two seconds.