And – Ta-daaah! – My Book Cover December. I both love it and dread it. Do you? A few of the things I love: The Phoenix weather. After a fickle November, where the high might be 90 or 60, December settles into long stretches of days hovering around 70 degrees. Just nippy enough for a sweaterContinueContinue reading “Year-end Musings”
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Ask and you shall… give
The reciprocal joy of asking a favor Raise your hand if you like to help people. I know I do. Now, raise your hand if the idea of asking for help can send you into a guilty, stomach-churning spiral: Should I? Shouldn’t I? If I ask, will this person think less of me? On this one, I am goingContinueContinue reading “Ask and you shall… give”
How To Train Your Human, part 2
Now, a few words from Ella on the subject Humans. Can’t live with ‘em, can’t live without ‘em. Well, maybe you brawny German Shepherds and Dobermans, or you scrapy mutts would stand a fighting chance out on the streets, but when you’re a seven-pound piece of fluff living in a town teeming with speeding carsContinueContinue reading “How To Train Your Human, part 2”
How To Train Your Human, part 1
Can you, or can you not, teach an old dog new tricks? Well friends, in my house the jury is still out on which way to flip that aphorism. The dog: our yorkie, Ella who, coming up on six is not so old but is intractably stubborn. The trick: sleeping overnight in her kennel. AnContinueContinue reading “How To Train Your Human, part 1”
Hatching Dreams from an Empty Nest
Some number of years ago, I was having lunch with a friend, a woman I’d met in the tenacious and sometimes duplicitous trenches of the school PTO board. Our youngest children are the same age, and we were both heading into the final bend of that seemingly endless, curving road we’d been traveling. We couldContinueContinue reading “Hatching Dreams from an Empty Nest”
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