If you’d asked me last Thursday morning what the last thing was that I thought would happen after our dog Ziti was spayed, I probably would have said something like, “Well, I certainly won’t be sitting on the couch with Ziti curled up tight next to me in a ball, lactating and displaying all the …
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Three Things, Day 5: Timing, Driving & Crabs
1.I’m halfway to Baltimore as I write this. I’m spending the night with my step-daughter and her fiancé near Binghamton, NY., and I’ll finish the trip early tomorrow. My daughter attends college in Maryland and needs their snow tires. “I could just get them at Thanksgiving,” they said, but I’d rather not risk it. Then, …
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Three Things, Day 4:
1.It’s been an exceptionally challenging week at school, largely due to the thing that’s making every week of school challenging this year: COVID-19. I mentioned this yesterday, but today was more of the same and a big part of the reason I ended up being grateful. After lunch, the kiddos gathered on the big rug …
Three Things, Day 3: Relief, Warmth & Journey
1.I gotta tell you, as I sit to write this, the thing I’m most grateful for in this moment is that the day is nearly done. It started with oversleeping, which meant I didn’t get a head start on writing this. Then work was a wild ride. I’ll simply say this: if anyone in your …
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Three Things, Day 2: Heart, Sole & Synthwave
1.Today I am grateful for a good checkup. When we adopted our rescue dog Ziti a little over a year ago, we were told she was recovering from heart worms. Her visit visit to our vet revealed that rather than recovering from them, a decent population of the parasites were still living rent-free in her …
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