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I have to admit that I have rarely been able to read other people. Dogs, that’s another matter entirely. Unlike we human beings, what’s in their hearts or brains shows up in their countenance, [...]

There I was again – in an all-too-familiar situation in which I find myself so often since moving to another town. Instead of being in a suburb south of the main state capital, I am now north and [...]

Today I was not my better self. I found myself in a situation where I felt my rights had been violated. What did I do? I exploded on the perceived perpetrator. The scene was haggling over who was [...]

I would like to suggest that someone being at the top, in charge, overseeing, is a natural phenomenon. It occurs throughout life in all kinds of situations. We see a whole lot of vying or [...]

I am not happy until I can look at my person eyeball to eyeball. I am just tall enough to do this when she is sitting. You may wonder that I know my person is a she. We dogs know these things. [...]

I have been blessed with four sisters, but at this stage of our lives, we are flung out over the Southwest: Carol in Arizona, Elaine in Colorado, Anita in Texas and Linda in New Mexico, while I [...]

I have had this topic on the back burner for years, and you’ll shortly see why. We have all had some exposure to different kinds of tests purported to determine our personality, character traits, [...]

She never existed at all. I used to have a keychain that was engraved with “Super Mom.” I’m not sure if one of my kids gave it to me, but however I came by it, it was what I aspired to be. Super [...]

Robert Frost is the poet who touted this adage. At least that is where I first encountered it. For those of us who are animal owners—whether they are companions or working animals—fences are [...]

(I originally wrote this piece on October 8, 2015 – but I never published it until now …) Five years ago my mirror shattered. Anyone who has ever been truly loved—or who has deeply [...]