Yes! My book by that same name is finally up on Kindle at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007BSOLWW! It should be in print on Amazon soon. AND, if you have a Kindle e-reader you can “borrow” it for free through Kindle’s new ADP Select program. If you read it, […]

“You have nothing if not your health.” I don’t know who first said that, but you know just how true that is if you’ve ever had a chronic disease or ongoing pain. Quality of life is everything . . . and unfortunately having health insurance […]

Well . . . not pretty. Read:  eye infection. That’s what happened to my precious Frida when I first got wind of the fact that she is a bit prone to the “dry-eye” symptoms that some Chihuahuas exhibit. Naturally, I was out of town. The […]

Several years ago, a farrier in one of my beginning animal communication classes reported that a draft horse at one of the barns he worked at had been talking to him every time he was on the premises, telling him about the abuse she was […]

  Pilar & Annie, July 8, 2011, on their last walk together.  HOW DO WE KNOW, AND WHOM CAN WE TRUST TO HELP US KNOW WHEN TO DO WHAT WE MUST? TO LET GO AND LET GOD TAKE OUR LIFELONG FRIEND, AND TO KNOW IN […]

A rare few have had more than one. Some of us have never had any. But if you’re a horse lover and a lucky duck, you have, hopefully, at some point found that once-in-a-lifetime horse you dreamed of as a child. I did, after having […]

Isn’t there a saying: “God is in the little things.”? I don’t know where this came from, but I believe it’s true. I have rethought, rewritten, and edited this post many times because I don’t want to offend anyone. I have friends  who run the […]

Shortly after Punkin, a beautiful Shar Pei, passed she told us she definitely wanted to return, as another female  Shar Pei, same color, with, of course, the same people. She had a job to do that she had not been able to finish in her […]

I’m talking about mi Corazon (registered name “Ruby Rose Bud”). I call her Corazon (Spanish for “heart”) instead of Ruby now because she has a heart as big as Texas.  And I should know because I’m from Texas. Really.  Corazon tries her hardest to do […]

When the plea went out from our local shelter recently for help with the dozens of tiny, motherless kittens who needed fostering, I finally ponied up and jumped in full force. When I went to pick up a few of the babies and saw how […]