My Accomplished Cat

Kate Stone Lombardi
2 min readFeb 8, 2022
courtesy of Paulette Ciotti

We keep hearing about how Covid has constrained our lives. Well, that is not the experience of my cat, Van Gogh.

Van Gogh has significantly expanded his social and intellectual life during the pandemic. His world keeps getting bigger.

In the photo above, you will see the cat participating in a barre class I take via Zoom. Since I don’t actually own a ballet barre, I use a kitchen chair for the class…

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Kate Stone Lombardi

Journalist/author. Contributor NYT 20+ years. Also WSJ, Time.com, GH, AARP, more. Author: Mama’s Boy Myth (Penguin/Avery 2012). Cook. Besotted grandmother.