Anywhere but Paradise by Anne Bustard

Author:Anne Bustard [Bustard, Anne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-60684-586-8
Publisher: Egmont Publishing
Published: 2015-03-31T04:00:00+00:00

Half-Full or Half-Empty?

IT’S SUNDAY AFTERNOON and Howdy lies in a thin beam of sunlight on the floor next to his door.

“Hi, sweet boy,” I say, and reach my fingers through the wire to scratch the top of his head.

Howdy stands, stretches, and rubs his whiskers against his cage.

“Back up just a smidgen,” I say as I lift the handle and open his door. I pick Howdy right up, sit on the bench, and set him on my lap. There’s less cat hair in my hands, less on my clothes.

“See that,” says Daddy. “A half-empty bowl.”

I lean back against the cage. “Why, compared to last week, Howdy, you’re almost a member of the clean-plate club. When you wake up tomorrow, you’ll have eighty-nine days left. You can do this. Keep up the good work.”

Daddy settles in beside us with a book about positive thinking.

Except for petting Howdy, I don’t move for two whole hours.

It almost doesn’t matter that he doesn’t purr.

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