Category Archives: Pearl

Living with the large featherless beings can bring you into close contact with some of life’s greatest mysteries. For example, sometimes Mom likes to go out for something she calls “take out.” When she comes back, she might be lugging several bags, one bag, or just one small box containing a single item. While youContinueContinue reading “Day 129: Take Out Waffles”

Pearl’s mommy (aka the large featherless being) here. If you enjoy hanging out with feathered beings all day, you may notice sometimes your small winged sidekick is reluctant to try certain nutritious, tasty, new items you want them to ingest. Here, it is helpful to employ “subterfuge.” Say your feathered sidekick loves anything that isContinueContinue reading “Day 128: Subterfuge”

While everyone gets lucky with a lens now and again, certain beings are just born photogenic. For these beings, every picture they take is cover-worthy, and every angle is good (great). Every pose evokes “oohs” and “aahs” from cameraperson and crowd alike, and even rank amateurs feel like Vogue fashion photographers when they see theContinueContinue reading “Day 127: Photogenic”

Being very cute takes a lot of energy. You have to eat a lot to keep up your strength and grow long strong claws and a sharp beak. You have to preen so often to make sure your feathers stay at their shiniest and most fetching. And you have to make sure you get enoughContinueContinue reading “Day 126: Resting”

“Bubo” was a great horned owl. Found by author and zoologist Bernd Heinrich when he was just a tiny owlet, Bubo was lucky that his new surrogate parent knew just how to guide the young owlet in such important tasks as learning to roost, play, and hunt (all with an eye towards an eventual successfulContinueContinue reading “One Man’s Owl”

Being small, round, fluffy, cute, and very vocal makes it easy to communicate preferences when you have them. For instance, you can shriek. You can crunch things with your sharp beak. You can flap your wings and hang upside down (this is particularly effective in the evening – and around Halloween each year). You canContinueContinue reading “Day 125: Preferences”

Certain beings are lucky enough to have innate traits (like sharp beaks) to allow them to customize their surroundings to their liking. Because these beings often also have specific thoughts about the decor they find most pleasing, customization, once begun, is typically swift and specific. For example, say your mommy works hard to create aContinueContinue reading “Day 124: Customization”

The trapeze is a thing of aerial beauty. If you already have aerial talent, performing on it will make you look even prettier. Author: Shannon Cutts Co-Author: Pearl Cutts

You kiss their soft feathery belly again and again. You make them their favorite dishes. You scratch their itchy neck feathers. You applaud enthusiastically after every (fabulous and feathery) performance. You say “thank you” when they generously offer to help you while you are working. You provide them with the softest, comfiest nest. You celebrateContinueContinue reading “Day 122: When You Love Someone….”

When you are hungry and have lots of feathers, preparation trumps presentation every time. In other words, even though the large featherless waitress persists in trying to take the crunchy outer bits off the giant egg-like object before releasing it to you, you already know a) you are hungry, b) the crunchy bits are tastyContinueContinue reading “Day 121: The Giant Egg”