If you’re an animal communicator, you’re almost certainly what’s known as an empath. An empath is someone who can pick up empathically the feelings of another. It’s kind of like vicariously experiencing the thoughts or feelings of someone else without having been given any objective […]

I think this is one of, if not THE, hardest things about having animals in your life. Watching as they grow old and then going through the end-of-life vigil with them. And of course it applies to all animals, not just dogs. It is such […]

WEEKEND POSTS ARE DEDICATED TO HEALTH AND HEALING. SINCE THIS IS MY 100TH POST ON THIS BLOG, IT SEEMED FITTING TO DEDICATE IT TO MY “HEART DOG” BEN, WHO DIED MANY YEARS AGO AT 14 AFTER LIVING AN AMAZINGLY HEALTHY LIFE. TO BEN, WHO STILL […]

We all know how, when we’re  really sick, anything and everything in life feels insurmountable. You have a high fever, or a migraine headache, or you’re throwing up and having diarrhea at the same time.  Even thinking about a routine day or going to work […]

By “help” I only mean: Would you like to share in some squash or tomatoes or kale or spinach or beets or carrots or okra or beans or cucumbers or onions or chard or lettuce or parsnips or broccolini (I know I’m leaving something out)? […]

Everybody can communicate with animals if they want to. Most of us do all the time, at least those of us who have animals and love them and treat them like family. Yet when the subject of “animal communication” as a special skill or profession […]

Fasting. Ugh. I hate it. I have tried it a few times and simply cannot accommodate it in any way, shape, or form — bodily, sensorily (is that a word?), or philosophically. Cleanses, yes. Fasts, no. Perhaps it is just me, or my constitutional make-up. […]

If you’ve followed this blog at all, then you know that my very favorite painter in the whole world is Susan Hertel, and that I now own and live in the house she built in the late 1980’s in Cerrillos, New Mexico, just south of […]

My mother used to say: “Honey, you can walk down the street buck naked, and if you act like you know what you’re doing, nobody’ll ever even notice!” God bless her soul, and may she rest in peace. Over the [many] years I’ve been on […]

“Every profession has something to be thankful for. Ours is that Chihuahuas don’t come in the size of Great Danes.” Thus proclaimed the veterinarian for whom I worked in my early 20’s as he wrestled with the tiny terror on the table — a teacup […]