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 […]

WEEKEND BLOGS ARE DEVOTED TO HEALTH. THIS POST IS A FOLLOW-UP TO A PREVIOUS ARTICLE ON STEM CELLS AND WAS WRITTEN BY MY ALGAE UPLINE, ALAN JOEL. I recently wrote about my own experiences with a stem cell therapy product called StemPlex, made by Simplexity […]

Remember the movie Ghost from the early 90’s? It starred Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze, who was shot and killed in an untimely manner and then went to great lengths to make Demi aware of his continued existence — albeit in the spiritual realm rather […]

My vote is ‘yes,’ and other animals can too. I’ll never forget the first time I noticed this. I was lying on my bed, in an old abandoned Texas farmhouse I had bought and brought up to livable condition. It had been the homestead on […]

Some of the hardest cases I handle are the goodbyes — where an animal has come to the end of his life, or his life has been ended suddenly and unexpectedly, and he and his person must both deal with the grief of physical separation. […]

MY WEEKEND BLOGS ARE NOW DEVOTED TO HEALTH AND HEALING. THIS IS A GUEST POST FROM ONE OF MY ALGAE UPLINE, ALAN JOEL, REGARDING A RECENT HEALING EXPERIENCE. I admit that I am an over-enthusiastic gardener and weekend warrior. On the weekends I tend to […]

Most everybody these days knows what the phrase “walk your talk” means. Don’t just say it, DO it. Put up or shut up. Put your money where your mouth is. That kind of thing. The phrase was originated (I think) to refer to people who […]

How about right now. After all those days of writing about Mustangs and horse types I can’t think of a single thing animal to blog about. I feel like the little guy in this picture, though he’s much cuter than I, I must say. My […]