Thank you for playing along with this blogger’s shenanigans! I hope you had fun with it. The first place winner was Cheryl Bryant from Mount Vernon, Iowa, the only respondent (out of more almost 100) who had a perfect score. Many of you would have achieved the same had it not been for that dog... [More]

No one ever exactly wakes up one morning and thinks to themselves, Gee, today I think I want to bring a shoe-eating, yard-digging, cat-chasing, cord-chewing creature into my home! Yes, won’t that be grand!

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(photo courtesy of Eileen Merrihew, taken 1949)    

Although we all face professional and personal challenges every day, my problem solving skills and ability to adapt to adversity directly stem from my childhood. Growing up in a small western Nebraska town with physical abnormalities, I felt a constant spotlight was shown on me because I was “... [More]

Jack was my first-born baby. My husband and I had just bought our first home together--a beautiful brick bungalow in a vibrant Denver neighborhood--and things were just about perfect. The only thing missing from the picture-perfect life we were creating together was a dog. We were young, fun, ... [More]