2022-01-11 14:30
I'm giving a fun beginners class at the Art Guild of Paducah.The class size is limited to five participants. I'll provide coffee and some home baked snacks and everything you need. We will t… Read More
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A member of the Dog Writers Association of America blogs about living with nine dogs and a very tolerant husband in a small Southern city.
2021-12-14 21:03
It was the morning after a tornado leveled the town of Mayfield, KY, just 27 miles to our south. One dear soul who had signed up for the workshop had been up all night helping family… Read More
2021-12-01 15:05
I have been teaching needle felting workshops at #EphemeraPaducah for several years, and now I'm bona fide certified! I love needle felting and I love to teach and I love most of all seeing… Read More
2016-11-12 17:01
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. Martin Luther King, Jr.My new reality: that Awful Man is my President-elect.And make no mistake, to me he truly is an… Read More
2015-03-30 21:54
She had a great weekend. She had tortellini for breakfast and cleaned her bowl this morning. She was enjoying glorious warm sunshine today at lunch time. Something went in her neck. I had pr… Read More
2014-02-26 03:15
Jessie was one of the most beautiful dogs I've ever known or seen.She did amazing things in the show ring. She was from a magical litter. Jessie, Breezy, Colby, Mollie, Emma, Fat Charli… Read More
2014-01-25 15:06
It's time to nominate a therapy whippet for the Willow Award. Our breed is full of quiet heroes whose stories deserve to be told and heard. We all know whippets who brighten lives… Read More
2013-12-21 15:56
When you look at the photo above you see a two-year-old smiling Mama Pajama, covered in mud, running. This morning if I had somehow been able to video her in the dark, in the pouri… Read More
2013-11-28 14:58
I've been trying to get a video of sixteen year old Mama Pajama interacting with the rest of her pack, without much success. When she sees me pointing the phone or the iPad at her - realizin… Read More
2013-11-10 20:03
Yesterday I shared an old post about what I see in my old dog's eyes, and I promised I would write about Mama Pajama's eyes today. I've never had a dog as old as Mama Pajama; she is sixteen… Read More
2013-11-02 18:52
On the first of November in 1991 my first whippet was born. At the time neither she nor I had the slightest inkling that we would meet and that she would change my life rather dramatically;… Read More
2013-09-29 18:03
Mama Pajama hadn't done her trademark morning spinzoomies in a week. This was not unheard of, but troubling. She had left some food in her bowl on a few occasions, and a couple of times she… Read More
2013-09-17 12:35
I have been walking for so many years like this:That if I have to walk anywhere without my dogs, I feel as though I'm walking like this:Hug your hounds, fully clothed please and thank you!ht… Read More
2013-09-14 17:08
Here is Mama Pajama this morning. We celebrated her sixteenth birthday in June. She was born on June 29, 1997 into my hands, so we are not guessing her age. Her sister, Jessie, is also thriv… Read More
2012-11-25 21:48
Want to read a good book - or four?Early in my blogging adventure, I found the blog of a magical man in Canada. We became friends. I developed a deep affection and admiration for this person… Read More
2012-11-20 17:37
I worked the weekend. It wasn't a horrible weekend. I finished work and left the hospital at 8:00 PM on Sunday. Not bad at all.Monday morning the dogs let us sleep until 6:15, woohoo! F… Read More
2012-11-16 20:02
photo credit: my dear friend Laurie EricksonDo you ever feel that you were plopped into someone else's life? Or that your life is somehow a size too large or small? That whole drink me eat m… Read More
2012-11-15 21:28
I was going to title this simply "Fat Charlie" but when you have a fifteen and a half year old dog, and you title your blog post "Fat Charlie" everyone would gasp and think that he died. So… Read More
2012-10-26 03:44
-----I bent over to give Mama Pajama some fresh water and some scritches; it's part of our bed time ritual."Do you realize how much weight you've lost in your butt and your legs," asked Bill… Read More
2012-10-21 19:55
... I woke this morning from a dream about my late best friend, Alison. I was crying. Oh, thank God, it was only a dream.I have a history of these dreams. I waited for two years to… Read More
2012-10-17 19:48
Mia and Ali are visiting. That means the canine population in this (crazy) house consists of:Fat Charlie who is 15 and almost a halfMama Pajama who is 35 minutes younger than Fat Charli… Read More
2012-09-12 17:22
photo Ober KlineBill had his gallbladder out on August 16th. Plain old laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Only, when his surgeon (whom I know professionally pretty well from work) came into… Read More
2012-06-29 16:28
On June 29, 1997 my husband and I had invited friends to the farm for the first steamed crab feast of the summer. Linda and her husband and Willow, Rhonda, Terrie, and I believe Amy was in t… Read More
2012-04-09 18:35
Time means nothing to a dog.To us, it's everything. We measure our lives in years, our existence in weeks, days, minutes. We make split-second decisions, and get paid by the hour. Dogs meas… Read More
2012-04-06 19:29
Right.So.Couldn't talk about this for a couple of weeks. Well, I could, but it would not have been appropriate. I wrote a quickie synopsis of what's involved in Getting Your Book Published o… Read More
2012-03-30 15:24
14 yearsOnly my very new readers won't recognize Fat Charlie and Mama Pajama. They are litter mates who were born in June of 1997, which - for the math-challenged folks like me - means they'… Read More
2012-03-29 14:53
Radish is whippetdom's most favorite root vegetable. (Now there is a sentence you won't read every day!) She belongs to a friend and lives in Virginia.Prepare to be stunned, bedazzled, excit… Read More
2012-03-26 21:09
Puppy: Pssssssssssst. (waits a second) Psssssssssst!Human: zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz mmph rrrrgh (rolls over)Puppy: Hey! Hey! Birds are chirping, let's get up! Hey!Human: Oh… Read More
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