This is Sami, a female tabby brought home from the Lost Cat Foundation in 2013. Her name is an acronym: Sometimes Affectionate, Mostly Indifferent; which described her behavior pretty accurately for her first year in Falls Church, although now she might have to be renamed MASI because she has turned into a full-time lap cat when she gets her way. She also enjoys sitting on the News-Press when everyone else has read it.

Every Eight Hours: This September, Make Checking In a Habit
BY JOHN F. CROWNOVER Every eight hours, Virginia loses someone to suicide. In 2023, 1,230 Virginians died by suicide, and nearly four out of five were men. They were fathers,


