This book is all about cats! It is a collection of poems and stories about felines: their behaviors; their unique personalities; their foibles and their affections for their human caregivers. This collection also reflects the love and care given to felines by their human companions. It is meant to entertain and to offer a respite from the worries and stresses of life. Cat guardians will recognize some of the antics of their own cats. The thirty eight poems in the first part of the book are all based on cats and kittens that I have known and with whom I have shared my life. A large number of my cat-human adventures have been included. They involve a kitty wearing a gold-fish bowl; paper product chases and destructions; wake-up calls; a singing cat with his mule companion; as well as cats' senses of time and timing. I have used different styles of poetry: free verse; haiku; cinquain; terza rima and acrostic. Hopefully, these have allowed me to convey my cats as they would like! In the second part of the book there are eight short stories. The adventures as well as the cats in the first six stories are/were my cat companions. Two of the stories are about cats that I did not have the opportunity to know personally. One is about an abandoned cat and a young girl, whom I did meet, and how she rescued this cat that was left and discarded as unwanted. It touched me when I learned about the story years ago and I felt compelled to write and include it. The last story tells a tale of "Ranger, The Yellow Tavern Cat." I never got to meet or know Ranger but I have certainly heard much about this cat who was a most important resident of Hughlett's Tavern/Rice's Hotel in Heathsville, Virginia. Thanks to the work of the volunteers in the 1990s who saved the Tavern, a historical treasure, from disrepair and neglect, Ranger enjoyed a wonderful life as their beloved Yellow Cat. This is a cat who lived his 'adventures' to the maximum. And it is believed by some that his spirit floats around the bustling Tavern with its café; shops, farmers' markets to this day. A marker in front of the Tavern honors this cherished feline. I want to wish my readers much enjoyment and I send 'purrs.'

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