My Dog Has Fleas (Well… Had)

My daughter’s dog has fleas. Scratch that (haha), he had fleas. Max is a sweet, little rescue mutt, part beagle, part border collie, and 100% sweet. But no matter how adorable he is, fleas are not. And they had to go. My kids were both scheduled to work this evening, so my plan was to come home, […]

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Rough Weather

Today was a rough day, and I’m not entirely sure why. Perhaps it was that I have all three of my kids together at home with me for the first time in a few weeks, yet I have to be at work.  Perhaps it’s because it’s the week leading up to Mother’s Day and this […]

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Row, Row, Row Your Boat

There was an old country song by Crystal Gayle where she crooned the question, “don’t it make my brown eyes blue?”  There’s also a song by Tonic where they stated “if you could only see how blue her eyes can be when she says, when she says she loves me.”  Both of those have been […]

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The Far Side of Grief

You know those movie scenes where a couple, or a family, or a group of teenagers is happily riding along in a car and out of nowhere – WHAM! – their vehicle is struck by another?  Flying glass, screeching tires, crunching metal. Lives turned upside down in an instant.  Sudden, unexpected, intense.  That’s what grief […]

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