Allison Ketchell

@allisonketchell.bsky.social

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Writer & editor in my crone era / knitter / culinary dabbler / mom to humans, cats, dogs, bunnies, crows / she/her 🏳️‍🌈

A woman’s hand holds an instruction sheet for medical grade compression stockings above a sock putting-on device. The four step process illustrated appears simple, straightforward, painless, and easily accomplished without excessive swearing and/or crying
A woman’s legs are under a loose-weave blanket on a bed. A chonky tabby and white cat is on her lower legs. A slightly less chinky tabby and white cat is propped up against her. A brown dog is sleeping beside her.
A black demitasse filled with espresso on a black saucer, sitting atop an upside-down copy of Ursula Vernon’s sixth Princess Harriet Hamsterbone book, Little Red Rodent Hood. The swirls in the crema resemble an inkblot test
A butter dish with approximately two teaspoons of butter plus a smear remaining, a butter knife resting on its edge
A small round young cottontail rabbit faces to the right in an unkempt suburban backyard in early morning light, ears erect
Side view of a California ground squirrel sprawled on an unkempt clover-lawn, tail straight behind him and front legs holding up his body like he’s in a music video
A desert cottontail in an unkempt suburban backyard, scrunched up and looking slightly grumpy, a very round boi
A letter from Emory University held over the address on the envelope by a woman’s thumb (wow, she needs a manicure) greets Allison and Matt while the envelope is addressed to Ms. Allison Campbell.
A generously proportioned tabby and white cat curled up on a blanket-covered legs, totally asleep
A nearly empty butter dish with a couple of smears of butter on the butter. Directly beside it on the counter is the wax wrapping of a stick of butter, a couple of teaspoons of butter still left at one end. Resting on top of both is a dirty butter knife.
An overhead view of an open and very nearly empty mayonnaise jar, maybe a couple of teaspoons scattered around the inside
A photo of the underside of a kitchen sink attached to a garbage disposal. A short rigid hose forms a U between the disposal and the air gap above but it has kinked to the point of restricting water flow
A bird’s eye view of a black demitasse cup filled with espresso. The crema on top forms swirls reminiscent of inkblot tests. The cup rests on a Bunnicula paperback with a Percy Jackson bookmark peeking out
A cottontail rabbit in an unkempt suburban backyard, in mid-hop away from the camera
A closeup of the surface of a black demitasse cup full of espresso. The crema on top forms shapes similar to an ink blot test
A black demitasse cup full of espresso on a matching saucer atop a paperback copy of Rick Riordan’s The Red Pyramid. The crema on top forms blobs of various sizes reminiscent of ink blot tests
A brown dog in a pink harness and leash and a black and white dog in a red harness with black leash several feet away from the photographer intently sniffing a spot on the grass
A very round desert cottontail is hunched on an unkempt suburban clover-lawn underneath a boring nondescript decorative shrub keeping out of the rain
A single sprinkles-covered cupcake in a large white cake box with transparent lid. Around the edge in sharpie, someone has messily written “Talk to Mom before eating. There was an incident” with “incident” underlined
A desert cottontail on an unkempt suburban clover-lawn facing away from the photographer, ears erect, white cottontail gloriously on display
A grey tabby and white cat is stretched out and pressed up against and possibly partly underneath a brown dog, head tucked into the fur of the dog’s neck, back against a breastfeeding pillow with a faded owl print. A second grey tabby and white cat sleeps in a more normal cat pose curled up against the breastfeeding pillow, butt a couple of inches from the other cat’s upper back
A black cat stretches luxuriously in a sunbeam atop a length of sloth-themed Christmas Christmas wrapping paper. A neatly wrapped present in the same paper with a red box is behind her. There will clearly be no more wrapping until Her Majesty is finished with her nap.
A woman’s middle finger partially covers the address on an envelope addressed to “Dr. and Mrs. Matthew Campbell”
A post from a local mom group in white text on red background reading “Looking for a baby chiropractor for our 3 week old!” Post has 8 likes, 38 comments
An Amazon delivery confirmation email with a photo taken in the dark, with a perfectly round spot of red bricks and the toe of the driver’s shoe visible. No package appears in the frame.
The surface of a quadruple espresso in a black demitasse cup. The swirls in the crema form nebulous shapes in the vein of an inkblot test
The back of a box of Cheerios Oat Crunch Oats ‘n’ Honey cereal, promising in large, all caps letters START YOUR DAY SO SATISFIED
A desert cottontail eating grass and clover in an unkempt, very wet suburban backyard
A rather flooded suburban backyard with large deep puddles in the unkempt grass, wet bricks, and a flooded potted plant
A closeup of the surface of a quadruple espresso in a black demitasse cup, the crema forming swirls and shapes like an ink blot test. The cup sits on a paperback copy of The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan
A desert cottontail viewed from the side, ears erect, grass sticking out of its mouth, on an unkempt clover-lawn in a suburban backyard
The surface of a quadruple espresso in a black demitasse cup. The crema forms swirls and shapes like an ink lot test. Is it a pufferfish? What could that mean?
A desert cottontail, fuzzy butt toward the photographer, sits in quarter profile with its ears erect. It’s on patchy grass in a suburban backyard that clearly does not belong to “lawn” people
A brown dog is resting on a bed in between two tabby and white cats. The dog is looking slightly back toward the photographer. One cat is snuggled against the dog’s belly and looking toward the right. The other cat is curled into a boppy pillow with his butt against the dog’s back.
A middle aged woman wearing glasses and a witch hat and smiling in a somewhat unhinged manner sits with her arm across the shoulders of a skeleton
A Facebook news bulletin shows a map of southern California with a large area including metro Los Angeles in green with the heading TORNADO RISK MON-TUE in white letters on a red background
Part of an email from SilverSingles.com. Text reads: “A Good Profile Is The Key We LOVE who you are, and so will your matches. Make sure your profile reflects your true personality. It makes starting a conversation easier if you can ask a question about someone's profile information. Did your match say they enjoy paragliding? Ask them about it!” followed by a button to UPDATE PROFILE and a red circle enclosing a white heart with a red pencil. Remaining text reads: “Make it personal: Do you bake the best brownies or speak Japanese? Share it! Those are the things that make you” The bottom of the message is cut off.
The surface of a quadruple espresso in a black demitasse cup and saucer atop a paperback copy of David Whyte’s Consolations, the crema resembling a bubbly letter C, or if the cup were rotated 90 degrees, a U, or any number of other Rorschachian interpretations of pattern
A closeup of the surface of a quadruple espresso in a black demitasse cup on a black saucer, atop a paperback copy of Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan. The swirls in the crema form shapes like an ink blot test.
A Compartes chocolate instagram ad featuring a vivid red bar on a backdrop of tomatoes. The caption reads “the tomato chocolate bar. When your gift says everything about you”
News headline from April 6, 2023 reads, “Charlie Kirk Says Gun Deaths ‘Unfortunately’ Worth it to Keep 2nd Amendment”
Swirls and dots in the crema of espresso in a black demitasse cup, very Rorschach-ish
The back of a woman’s upper leg sporting a bruise of three purple and pink concentric circles
Dots and swirls in the crema atop a quadruple espresso in a black demitasse cup
On a kitchen counter with hopelessly outdated tile and discolored grout, a packaged pound of butter stands vertically beside a covered red butter dish with a butter knife sticking out from under the cover, globs of butter visibly on the edges of both the knife and the cover. Beside the handle of the butter knife is a stick of butter, nearly half used but not properly unwrapped, more mangled like a wild animal attacked it. Less relevant are the jar of preserved lemons beside the butter dish and a ziploc baggie on the counter in the foreground.
A desert cottontail sits in profile on the patchy clover-lawn of an unkempt suburban backyard, black-tipped ears erect, tail like two of the most adorable cotton balls ever
A rather portly grey tabby and white cat is asleep on a woman’s lap
Unhinged middle aged women painting
An orange tabby cat curled into a croissant shape
An orange tabby cat on a bed looks down in annoyed fashion at two young grey and white tabby cats
An orange tabby cat sleeping in faceplant pose
An orange tabby cat getting a belly rub
An orange tabby cat on a woman’s lap
An orange tabby cat sitting halfway down a flight of brown-carpeted stairs looking annoyed that his dinner is late
An orange tabby cat crouched on top of a printer in a beam of sunlight
An orange tabby cat on a blue blanket with one paw curled and one thrust out, looking up at the camera.
An orange tabby cat curled up with his tail wrapped around him and his arm over his face
A screenshot of an animal shelter website with a photo of an orange tabby cat in a carrier on a plaid blanket captioned with the name Curious George.
An orange tabby cat sitting primly and looking up, tail stretched long beside him
A black and brown and white classic tabby cat looks up from a pile of laundry in which she’s comfortably settled