title: Driving With Cats: Ours for a Short Time
author:  Catherine Holm 
description: &quot;Anyone who has loved, lived with, or grieved the loss of a cat will appreciate Driving with Cats. This tender book interweaves profiles of the author's cat companions with topics as diverse as finding your true calling, and the gentle wind of a cat's presence after death. This delicate, life-affirming book should have a place of honor on bookshelves where cats can curl up and wrap their paws around it.&quot;<br><br>-Linda Anderson, co-author, Angel Cats: Divine Messengers of Comfort, Saying Goodbye to Your Angel Animals, and other books in the Angel Animals series, angelanimals.net<br /><br />"This book goes beyond the animal companions of the author: from the family the cats complete, to the spiritual, the aesthetic, and the end-of-life mystery. And Catherine Holm goes beyond as well: from a fine writer to a yoga master to an elevated soul."<br><br>-Joseph Maiolo, award-winning fiction writer whose latest book is <i>Saint Matthew in Appalachia and Other Stories</i>, overcoatbooks.com<br /><br />&quot;A road map for the emotional journey of life - and death - with animal companions. Heartfelt, personal and at times profound, Driving with Cats steers us toward living consciously, loving unconditionally, and absorbing what other animals appear to know instinctively: this moment matters. Be in it.&quot;<br><br>-Cathy Unruh, Animal advocate, journalist, author of Taming Me: Memoir of a Clever Island Cat, cathyunruh.com<br /><br />Life with our cats is a journey -- one fraught with joy and with sorrow, but always traveled on a road paved with unconditional love and important lessons if your eyes and heart are open to receive them. <i>Driving With Cats</i> is a beautiful emotional and spiritual travelogue of Catherine Holm's own journey with the cats who touched her life and what they have taught her along the way.&quot;<br><br>-JaneA Kelley, Author of Paws and Effect, a blog by cats, for cats and their people<br /><br />"<em>Driving with Cats</em> is not just about living in northern Minnesota, or living with cats. It's a book about devotion, adaptation, intuition, permanence, isolation, and living "in the moment." It contains wisdom learned from several memorable felines no reader will easily forget."<br /><br /> - Barbara Florio Graham, author and publishing consultant, SimonTeakettle.com<br /><br />"Wise, heartwarming, sad, funny, practical, down-to-earth&ndash;this book gives an inside look at life with cats: the good, the bad, and the cuddly. Not just one or two cats&ndash;this author lists six cats in her and her husband&rsquo;s small, rural, northern Minnesota home. Throw in a a full-time job or two, plus freelance work, writing, yoga, and a revolving cast of stray and feral cats, and you&rsquo;ve got a sense of how busy and full the author&rsquo;s life is. If you&rsquo;re looking for support, insight, and advice, this book provides a model example of how a committed and ethical owner has handled the challenges of living with cats."<br /><br />-Jim Cihlar, author of <em>Undoing</em>, <a href="http://www.jamescihlar.com">jamescihlar.com</a>
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  February White Lies
  
  
  A Cat Collier Mystery
  
  
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  Carol Ann Kauffman
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  “The roads are horrendous! It’s freezing out there. I don’t think you should
  go. His flight arrives in the middle of the night. He told you not to go get
  him. It’s extremely dangerous and inconvenient. He’ll find a way home,” my
  mother snipped.
  
  
  “I’m sure he could find a way home, but I want to go get him. I’ve missed
  him.” I spoke calmly but glared at the phone, wondering if my mother called me
  just to make me crazy.
  
  
  “That’s not a smart decision,” she said. I could hear her wrinkling up her
  nose.
  
  
  “Well, I’m going anyway, Mother.”
  
  
  “If you’re not concerned with your own safety, then what about all the poor,
  hapless people who happen to be on the road at the same time as the daredevil
  Cat Collier?”
  
  
  “I’ll steer clear of all other vehicles. Don’t worry about me, or any
  unfortunate soul on the highway with me. We’ll all be fine. I’ll talk to you
  tomorrow. Good night, Mom.”
  
  
  “Go