HeyJaredThe Catty-Corner Conversations
Regular selections from "The Catty-Corner Conversations" by Michael H. Cole
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- 4
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- Sep 24, 2026
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- Jul 19, 2026
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On Victors (opens the original)
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Me: Morning, neighbor.My Catty-Corner Neighbor: Good morning. It is good to see you. I have not run into you for the past few days, so I was starting to get worried.Me: You were, I bet, more excited than worried.Catty-Corner: What do you mean?Me: I mean that you had a few days of being the only fish in your puddle, which meant that you were, by rule, the big fish. I was, in other words, not around for you
On Construction (opens the original)
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Me: Afternoon, neighbor.Catty-Corner: Afternoon, then, is what you call it? What you falsely call it, I might add.Me: […]Catty-Corner: After all, you cannot prove to me the units involved in your declaration of the word, so it should not have been made. That is how it works, I believe, and the term, you see, is now mine.Me: […]Catty-C
On Incarceration (opens the original)
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Me: Evening, neighbor.My Catty-Corner Neighbor: Good evening, though I can tell I am the only one of us who thinks of it as so.Me: What do you mean?Catty-Corner: Well, you have been pacing for the past few minutes, and I can see your hands are clenched into fists.Me: Well, both are justified. I feel angry about something I should be angry about.Catty-Corn
On the R-word (opens the original)
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Me: Evening, neighbor.My Catty-Corner Neighbor: Good evening. It is nice to see you, but I must let you know that I am not in the mood to talk.Me: I am sorry to hear that. Did you have a bad day?Catty-Corner: It was not my day that was the problem. Instead, there was a single hour today that feels as if it will spoil all my remaining years. It is, in fact, something that feels as if it is reaching back to spoil past years, too.<str
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