Santa Paws: The Cat Who Saved Christmas

My orange tabby cat and littermate, Morris (Town) Bucci, was the inspiration I used to create and tell my granddaughter, Katie, an off-the-cuff story about a boy and his cat, Santa Paws, and how he saved Christmas during one of the worst snowstorms in Alaska during the winter of 1974.

While telling her the story, I carefully detailed all the nuances that kept her attention over forty-five minutes, not too bad for an eight-year-old to keep an interest.

I used her desire of wanting to know mo...