My old cat teaches me how to live my life better By David L. Clark That was 21 years ago. We call Miranda our wedding gift to each other because we brought her into our lives in the months leading up to our nuptials. Or did she find us? They say that we live only part of our lives with a cat, whereas they live almost their entire life with us, but truthfully that is not at all how my wife, Tracy, and I feel about Miranda: she has so folded herself into our world that she feels like she has never not been part of it. It’s not that I cannot recall a time without her. … I realize now that Miranda will never not be part of us in the future too, no matter what that future holds. This calico, she is a time traveller.