Feline family or human family or both?
I have three wonderful sons who are the joys of my life but they are all in their early to mid-twenties and busy with their own lives. They do not live with me. Two of them got married recently so two wonderful daughters-in-law have been added to our family. Early next year, we will be adding a baby to the group and I will be a grandmother of a real person. Currently, I am been the grandmother to several clever and cute four-legged critters. I love them all. This being said, I am alone within the context of my everyday life. I have my hobbies and my vices and many good friends, however, there are days, often my days off from work, where the aloneness can become oppressive. I use some of the solitude and quiet on my days off to recover from crazy-busy, swelteringly hot shifts at work but, after awhile, I begin to walk around my apartment looking for something or someone to fill a void. In the midst of one stretch of hot weather and, b...