I'm not surprised by P-C's father's stance. My parents would think I'm entirely crazy if I told them a pet was making me actually happy. Pleased, maybe, they'd be willing to allow but never actually emphasise with. It's a common developing country attitude as far as I've encountered it.
Of course, if a pet were making me happy, there would have been a significant tectonic shift of my psyche, and my parents would be excused drilling down further.
ita, have you posted that information with that phrasing before? Because I just got a massive deja vu reading that post.
I've talked about Jamaican attitudes to pets before. I don't know if I'm recycling myself, though.
It could be I'm suffering from a localized time portal. No biggie.
Barb! So much Awesome~ma to you and your book.
And thank you, all. It is incredible. Hollaback NYC had 5 years of stories before that happened.
We're one month old.
(Hey, it's not such hard work, as much as enabling a certain space to exist and "then see what happens". Well, apparently A Lot Happens).
And I've got no one to blame but you people. You're the ones who told me about Hollaback to begin with.
I think P-C should get a kitty and name it Caucasian Devil Cat.
Also, thanks, Shir, for helping to make the world a better place and stuff....