Howdy folks:
Welcome to Michael Perry’s Voice Mail, episode 291. This one’s available to free and paid subscribers alike. Click the player above to listen.
In this episode I reveal how I agreed to allow my children to have cats only after making it clear the cats would be allowed only under my rules—but of course rather than living under my rules they snuck under them. And over them. And around them. And through them. And that was just the first week. And never mind the house, these days they pretty much run my office (see photos and videos below).
A big thank you to everyone who ordered the new book, which is now also available as an audiobook (read by me). It’s a little different, and that’s turned out to be good, because we’re meeting a whole new bunch of readers.
Okey-doke. Gotta get this cat off my lap and back to work. Not that a cat ever works.
Forward!Mike
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MARGINALIA
(Annotations from books Mike is reading, or annotations related to the episode)
The very definition of walking in like you own the place:
Sometimes it’s just creepy:
(The tinfoil-y stuff is a rescue blanket hung to reflect the late-afternoon sun, which otherwise bakes me out. The missing chunks are due to—you guessed it—the cats. And the mildew on the trim? Yes, I see it now.)
They like each other:
One thing we agree on? Office naps:
I continue to read Always Crashing In the Same Car (available at BookShop.org and Amazon) and got a kick out of randomly running into an old friend:
That feeling of familiarity is key to Montaigne and what I tried to convey in Montaigne in Barn Boots…even though he’s been dead for hundreds of years and even though hundreds of thousands (at this point, millions?) of people have read his work, he comes across like your friend. Your confidant.
Improbable Mentors & Happy Tangents is available in print and as an ebook. Also available as an audiobook.
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For more cats and oddments, follow Mike on Instagram. His daughter also finally got him set up on TikTok.
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