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May.18.2011
Sugano Hoso has undertaken a project of heart-throbbing proportions. She is providing shelter, food, and love to hundreds of dogs and cats abandoned in the evacuated area around Japan’s Fukushima Dai-ichi’s nuclear power plant. Read her story on my blog http://www.livingintheheartland.com
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May.17.2011
Today, I live with my two trustworthy Brittanys, Simon and Seth, and my Siamese cat, Zen. I know firsthand about the healing benefits of dogs. Mine helped me ward off loneliness and depression at a time of great trauma, and have served as my guardian angels and loyal companions. Dogs truly are man'...
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Apr.24.2011
(Originally posted on The Dog Diet, April 16th, 2010.)
I don't read newspaper editorials because they're usually boring political issues. I do though have a habit of buying local newspapers wherever I am, and when Sadie and I were in the Smokey Mountains working on our book, I read an editorial...
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Apr.24.2011
(Posted originally on The Dog Diet, July 14th, 2009.)
Sadie and I sold our large house right in the center of Charleston over a year ago now. There really was no pressing reason to do so except that I had a poster with a message that haunted me for months. The poster was a scene of an ocean...
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Apr.18.2011
The night Tiffany was delivered, my husband and I crouched over her bed, lovingly watching as she nestled down in the covers and made soft whining sounds.
“Despite having fangs and no opposable thumbs, isn’t she just perfect?” I breathed.
My husband nodded, then looked over at me and smiled....
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Apr.13.2011
Fiddler and Cordelia
The grey-and-white bird with red ear patches and a yellow head flew through the window of an ice-cream truck on a summer day in Kalamazoo, perched first on the driver’s head, then his shoulder, and refused to move. This was in spite of the children buying ice cream making...
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Apr.13.2011
Alena the goldfish is finally free. On a warm spring evening, as the sweet scent of magnolia drifted in through open windows, and a lone songbird indulged one last melody to end his day, Alena moved on. After living with the burden of a large tumor which had caused her to go blind, her battle was...
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Mar.30.2011
If you’ve been paying attention to the news these days you’ve no doubt heard about stem cell therapy and adult stem cells.
When most people think about stem cells they generally think that there are only two types in existence: Embryonic stem cells and Adult stem cells; however, the term “...
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Mar.21.2011
Posting late because I've been hard at work creating yet another "blog" to experiment somewhat with author marketing. My colleague Kristen Lamb is a huge fan of wordpress, and I must say the platform has lots of "aps" and such to offer. I've even embedded a hilarious kitty video...
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Feb.16.2011
I'm such a dog person, always have been. I had a special bond with Nicky, a German Shepherd mix, who was my primary companion during my hermit years in Vermont. I've blogged about her several times over the years -- when she was alive (Dogs, Spot the Dog), after she died (A Year Later), and...
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