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Dog in Charge

For twenty-eight years in a row, I owned two large dogs at a time. Then after a three year break, in a sentimental moment, I took the plunge again, with my husband in mind. Stan was hankering after at least one dog. Sleepless on a Saturday night, I found one year old Buddy, the exquisite…

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A Cockamaimie Musical Download

Some months back, I watched Ken Burns’ remarkable series about country music. It was like a graduate course about the origins and evolution of this kind of music in the United States. I actually took notes. So many performers over so many decades were described, with videos of them performing, wearing outfits that were almost…

Tail Wags

You can tell from the title of this blog post that I am a dog lover. The first dog in my life was a Kerry Blue terrier, who came to my family with the name Cheer. I was seven years old, and she was the only dog we ever had. Actually, the breeders where we…

Sisters (and Brothers) of Mercy

I went to Quaker Meeting this morning and found myself reflecting deeply on the words Leonard Cohen wrote many years ago in his “Sisters of Mercy” song: a masterpiece, in my opinion. When the human world goes crazy, as it has before and is doing now, it’s somewhat grounding for me to envison the incarnated…

About Being Homeless

I have been fortune in life never to have experienced homelessness. It’s amazing what people can survive when they have to. And many don’t survive. Sometimes their circumstances have changed, for any number of reasons, some preventable and many beyond one’s control .Fire, flood wind, regime change, illness, loss of employment! Addiction! Being targeted with…

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