By Popular Demand, Dr. Chi Chi LaChatte holds forth on the Pope
Well! Here I am! You'll be reassured to know that I have a PhD in Feline Behaviorism and Mood Disorders. You won't be reassured to know that the Pope thinks he has the right to decide that if gay...
View ArticleWhy hairballs? Scientific explanation by Dr. Chi Chi Lachatte
Here moi is again!!! Did you miss me?! So many of you wrote brilliant comments on my last post that I feel encouraged to write more. I know many humans are mystified by feline behavior. We are much...
View ArticleWell! It seems I need to give a little credit to the pope, a little
My scribe, Mary Sojourner, M.A. and I, expert and PhD in Feline Psychology and lots of other stuff, are thrilled that the pope read my inaugural column for Psychology Today and learned something....
View ArticleAntidote to Holiday Stress
My father was Catholic; my mother a near-atheist agnostic who loved X-mas. She, as is still the case in many families, did the bulk of the chores that made the holidays radiant; cooking, buying and...
View ArticleAntidote #2: for Holiday OCD
It was 5:01 p.m., December 24, 1982. I was the forty-two-year-old divorced mom (and full support) of three kids, a full-time worker and part-time student. I locked my notes in the file cabinet, yanked...
View ArticleAntidote #3: for Holiday Crankiness
You've filled a ten pound bag of life with a hundred pounds of things-to-do. It's only December 3 and already you want to scream every time you hear Alvin and the Chipmunks or What Child is This? As...
View ArticleAntidote #4: for holiday "Please spare me!"
You may love the holidays. You may hate the holidays. No matter what you feel, I suspect you may have a similar reaction to mine when you read the opening to this New York Times News Service story on...
View ArticleAntidote #5.: for holiday sorrow
Perhaps you have lost a partner, a mother, a father, a child, a dearest friend. Perhaps you have lost your beloved work, a home, a pet, a sense of yourself you would have believed you couldn't live...
View ArticleAntidote #6: for holiday gift block
You believe you have to find the perfect gifts (just as you believe you have to plan and cook the perfect holiday dinner, perfectly wrap the perfect gifts, find the perfect tree to decorate perfectly,...
View ArticleAntidote #7: for holiday loneliness
You could be anybody anywhere: the grand-father at the holiday feast surrounded by loved ones; the working mom finally able to exhale as your kids' shining eyes tell you the work was all worth it - the...
View ArticleAntidotes #8-10: for whatever you need
I'll be on the road for 2-3 days and away from easy computer access. Here are a few pieces into which you might escape. The Mojave. Dookosl’iid (The San Francisco Peaks near Flagstaff, Az, Buffalo...
View ArticleAntidotes #11-16: for holiday burn-out
Be careful with vows. It is dishonorable to be forsworn. ---Ancient Pagan teaching. I am forsworn. Despite my best intentions, I did not post Antidotes 11-16 on December 11-16. There are two...
View ArticleAntidote #17: for holiday loss
The couples in the holiday advertisements are always happy - the young lovers, the chic professionals, the retirees. And the families? Delirious with having or sublimely peaceful in the aura of...
View ArticleAntidote 18: for holiday "this gift is too expensive"
My degree is in Common Sense. My favorite human bumper sticker is: If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention! If you haven't been paying attention to this blog, you might not know that I...
View ArticleAntidote 19: for holiday claustrophobia
You're snowed in. Or it's a gorgeous desert morning and you have 40 hours of hypothetically loving and giving chores to do in the next sixteen hours. Or you somehow ended up married to a person you...
View ArticleAntidote 20: for holiday nostalgia
The ache in the blood, the longing for what no longer exists, the wish that the holiday lights and old music still wove magic. The only magic you hope for is to wake on January 2, 2011 and know the...
View ArticleToday is the Antidote
Last night I watched the earth's shadow creep across the moon. Orion strode just below, his light near-lost in the moon's brilliance. Lepus, the star-rabbit was invisible at The Hunter's feet. The...
View ArticleI'm going to change my life in 2011 - really?
My friend looks over at me. We're driving through gray light and mist to the eastern desert. "So what is your practice?" he says. I laugh. "Practices," I say. "One is the morning meditation;...
View ArticleThree Sacred Questions for your new year
If midnight tonight is the beginning of your new year*, you may want to ask yourself three questions in relation to last year. They are the questions that healers of a Central Oregon Native American...
View ArticleYou're a smart tech junkie - the dealers are smarter
You're no fool. You were outraged at the Goldman Sachs bail-out.read more
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