January 2017
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A heartfelt THANK YOU to everyone who sympathized, empathized, and otherwise offered comfort and kind words regarding the passing of our sweet Nellie. The Nellie blog inspired many folks to share stories of their pets. Wonderful stories! Humorous, heartbreaking, incredible stories. We laughed, we cried, we remembered fondly. Crazy dog! Can you believe…! How about that time…! The loss may continue…
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It is with wounded heart, weeping eyes, and hitching breath that I type this. We lost our beloved pup, Nellie Fox, last week after thirteen long and wonderful years and a quick and failing decline. We bought her from a Pembroke Welsh Corgi breeder in Harvard, Illinois, Labor Day weekend, 2003. To discourage an impulse buy, I…
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Let’s talk about books, baby Let’s talk about you and me Let’s talk about all the good things And the bad things that may be Let’s talk about books With much thanks to Salt-N-Pepa, let’s talk about books. What am I reading? Would I recommend it? And why? I just finished the audio of Wool…
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Happy New Year. Happy fresh start. Happy do-over. Or redo-over. Or do-new. 2016 was quite a year. These are just words on a screen. Any tone you read was drawn of your own implication. But you did read that with tone, didn’t you? You couldn’t help it. It was quite a year. To be fair,…
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I love a fresh start. A blank page, a white canvas, a new year. They hold so much promise. I’m not so concerned with traditional “resolutions” this new year, although I do resolve to get things done. There’re a lot of things I think about doing that I just never seem to get to. For…
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