There Is No Cat

Why, yes, Mr. Brandi, that is a fascinating navel

There Is No Cat is now a toddler, turning three years old today. As I’ve done the previous two years, I went looking through my archives of the past year to see what I wrote that I thought was any good. I only came up with two posts, and one of those was from four days ago:

• Profanity Therapy
• Losing His Cookies

Still, the year wasn’t a total waste. My favorite thing I wrote all year was closely entwined with the sort of post I made that did work well this year: photographs. My travelogue of our trip to St. Augustine, Florida, at Thanksgiving isn’t strictly speaking part of There Is No Cat. But I did excerpt each entry here as I wrote it over the month or two it took me to post my photographs. And I’m really quite happy with many of the photos; some of them are among my favorites I’ve ever taken. I probably should put together an edited version of just the really good ones. Maybe another evening. Other photo posts I like:

• Lighting the way
• Blurry photos
• Things Nineteen through Twenty-six (the last of my entries for July’s 26 Things photographic scavenger hunt)
• Vacation snapshots from Mars
• Neon (the disappearing Doo Wop architecture of Wildwood, NJ)
• Blue
• Beach houses, November 2003

I also posted a piece of music that won a contest. I never got the prize, but that’s okay, I didn’t really need it.

I made 111 posts this year. That’s down from 179 last year and 442 the first year. Going on current trends, that means you can probably expect 93 posts from me in the coming year. But, as the stock brokers say, past performance is no guarantee of future results. I may post a lot less, and have trouble coming up with even two posts I like at this time next year....

Posted at 9:56 PM