If anyone needs me, I’ll be in my office.

Cat Nap by Wooway1 on Flickr.

“Puppy leading pony cart carrying three kittens,” by Harry Whittier Frees, ca. 1914. Via Shorpy.

“Cotton Carnival.” Memphis, Tennessee, May 1940. Photograph by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. Source: Shorpy.

Photograph by Wallace Kirkland, Illinois, 1945. Source: LIFE Photo Archive.

Two young girls from inner city of Chicago playing with kittens and talking to a farmer during their stay on a farm that is part of the “Adventures in Brotherhood” experiment being conducted by a Presbyterian church.

“The little girl with the cat in her lap turned out to be mom.”

Philadelphia, early 1930s.

Out of the cascade of vintage mom pictures in my Facebook feed yesterday, the best had to be this one, from my friend Sue. She’s a poet and has two excellent Tumblrs. Check out Maggie: A Magazine (poetry and dogs) and Franklinstein (mashing up Gertrude Stein, Ben Franklin, and the history of Germantown, Philadelphia).

no smoking by the ghost of me on Flickr.

postcard, by Louise Voce, 1982.

From the book Siamese Cats by Louise Van der Meid, 1960. Photographs by the author. Source: Open Library.

Studio portrait of five kittens on a pedestal, probably taken in Compton’s Photo Studio in Brigham City, Utah. Between 1895 and 1925. Source: Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives, via Mountain West Digital Library.

Harold W. Scheffler: Photograph of Anne Scheffler with cats at Hopongo (New Paradise), Rendova, October 1967. Source: UC San Diego, Mandeville Special Collections Library, via Calisphere.

P.S.: VCL.

La limousine by the ghost of me on Flickr.

Undated postcard.