Do you remember Frida Kahlo? She was that amazing Mexican painter and idependent spirit in the mid-1900’s? She was famous for her unique “uni-brow,” the effect created by her thick eyebrows that grew so close together they looked like one long line of hair. Anyway, […]

Like Sabrina here, many domesticated animals enjoy spending time and doing things with their people. But, like their human counterparts, they have individual preferences for what types of activities they like to engage in and what types they absolutely abhor. Sabrina loves to be out […]

Have you ever had the feeling that something just wasn’t right for you? A job, a prospective mate, a certain food perhaps? You couldn’t put your finger on it , but some part of you just knew? Some call that a “gut reaction,” and, in […]

God bless everybody out there who does animal rescue! I’m sure anyone reading this blog has done more than their share and taken in many homeless animals who would have otherwise ended up . . . well, we won’t go there. So you all well […]

I didn’t dream it would be so soon after my last post, but the weather this afternoon was so sublime, and my back felt pretty darn stable, so today was the first real ride in six months for Bella and me. Hurray! It wasn’t a […]

Ah . . . that phrase is used for so many things in our culture. When you hit a bad bump in life, or experience a major setback, get a divorce, lose a parent, just have a bad day . . . ya gotta get […]

My family has four wonderful dogs — three large and one small, whom you’ve already met if you’ve been reading this blog. That’s Tucker, the Chiweenie, a 2-1/2-yr.-old Chihuahua/Dachscund mix I rescued from the Humane Society on September 10, 2008. Tucker is the hit of […]

Shifting from * doubt into certainty; * a hot humid Texas environment into a cool dry New Mexican one; * a demanding business schedule into a more fluid one; and, last but certainly not least; * nearly balanced health into totally unbalanced health, and then […]