I am not a cat person.
That said, long before her 20th birthday, Zena won me over.
When Greer, our older daughter, was 7, she picked a little calico from a host of kittens at a shelter event in Lafayette. We’ve named our family cats after philosophers, starting with Socrates, then Aristotle — and finally Zena after the philosopher, Zeno. (I changed the “o” in Zeno to an “a” because she was a girl.) Zeno is best known for his work with paradoxes.
Greer is now 27. In the years between, Zena had a long, full life and living up to her name, she became our family’s warrior princess…