I have spent a lot of my life believing I was worthless. But a lot of what has happened over the course of the years has caused me to feel that that is not so. I love children. Not all children, because some of them, like some adults, are not very nice. But if you’ve […]

Have you ever designed a website before?  It turns out that it can be very time consuming. Both in its development and launching stages, of course, but also in the idea stages. Where you have an idea, a vision, of what you want, how you want your site to look, but you can’t get there […]

Today, I learned a lot about some people. Mainly, that some people will make untold excuses for treatment of puppies and dogs, try to pass it off as similar to what some humans go through, but which, if you are really being honest, we all know that the one bears no resemblance to the other.Case […]

We’re back to the routine of 6:30 am phone calls before she goes off to work, late morning calls when I ask her how her morning is going, an afternoon call when I ask how her afternoon is, the six pm call when she gets home and is settled in, and the last call of […]

Last week we went out to dinner with a couple of women my sweetie knows, at their request. They knew I was heading back to Canada soon, and so the gesture was made to say good bye and extend good wishes. About  3/4 of the way through dinner, one of the women asked politely, “So, […]

People say such stupid and asinine things when they don’t know you. Like, “I hope you find peace and happiness, Rebecca.” This was said to me recently in response to a comment to a blog post (not mine) that really shouldn’t have happened. By someone who doesn’t know me at all, but thought they had […]

She’s a shocking puppy. She always has been.At four and a half months of age, she is just now settling down enough that her promise shines through more clearly. But from the time she was 6 1/2 weeks old, when we brought her home, until now, she has been, at times, quite wild, very willful, […]