Has Vick Paid His Debt to Society?

There are many people who feel quite strongly about this one way or the other. Personally, I don’t think he has. I’m irritated with the NFL for letting him back in (albeit conditionally), but they are a private organization and thus free to do what they want. The real failure happened years ago in the legal system.  [...]

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My Annual Public Service Announcement

Here comes my annual lecture, uh, public service announcement about getting/giving puppies/dogs for Christmas. Most of these things are common sense, but bear repeating especially given the release of Marley and Me this holiday – after which even though Marley is ill-behaved people will be rushing out for new lab puppies I’m sure.  And while [...]

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She’ll Have A Side of Clonazepam with Her Turkey

I can’t sugarcoat anything about my time at Mom’s this past week. Thanksgiving was miserable this year. And I can’t say I am surprised because my sister and I have known this was coming since Mom had her stroke but we’d been lulled into some sort of blissful ignorance.  Plus I had been unable to travel there [...]

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Giving Thanks

I can’ t think if a better way to kick off Thanksgiving week than to post this: http://www.igpr.org/ Remember when I posted this?  You *all* listened, reacted and responded. And now you can see the results of your generous actions. Emma and Pearl have a new lease on life and are happy, healthy and 1 of [...]

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Hey Pop Tart -Where Ya Been and Whatcha Been Doing?

The title of the post is one of my favorite lines from Sex and the City – said to Carrie by Aiden when they were living together in cramped quarters. I suppose today is as good a day as any to return to my blog. Where have I been and what have I been doing? [...]

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Milo and Emma Need Your Help

I blog often about dog rescue – sometimes telling stories and sometimes asking for help. Our rescue always needs help – especially foster pyrents. I’m getting ready to put a plea for help out again  – but this time the plea is a different.  The need is always urgent of course but this time the [...]

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Why America Will Be Responsible for Our Own Undoing

Because we elect corrupt, narrow-minded, rich croneyism-ridden politicians from local towns all the way up to the White House that control what goes on here. This is not news to anyone of course. But the exclamation point was put on the sentence for me when I read an article in Wired about Shai Agassi’s plan [...]

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In Lieu of Depression, Post Photos of Dogs In Costumes

I’m finding myself upset over this today. I’m linking to the Indystar article so you can see all the mean comments but if you want the details, go to WTHR.com. In a nutshell, a disabled man who lived in our neighborhood and always tooled around on his motorized wheelchair was struck by not one but [...]

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An Open Letter to Anyone Leaving Rude Comments on the Military Recruitment Post

Who knew that after months and months the military recruitment post would still be getting hundreds and hundreds of hits per day and nasty comments?  I fully acknowledge I open myself up to public disagreement by posting a public blog and that’s fine.  And I don’t want to have to close down and/or delete comments. I [...]

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My Dog Ate My Seatbelt

It finally happened. After however many months of driving around sans seatbelt, I got pulled over on Saturday. I don’t not wear my seatbelt to be cool or out of laziness. My dog ate it. Bella more specifically ate it. Seriously. That is no joke. It no longer works.  I’m also not one of these [...]

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