Will your dog come when called every SINGLE time when they are off-leash? Some dog people think that this should be a requirement. But can we program dogs, like computers, to give us the same results every time without error? Or maybe we just have some unrealistic expectations of our dogs.
Archives for 2014
Remembering Lisa
In fact, if you’d seen us later at the restaurant, laughing and talking in animated delight, you would probably not have guessed that we were a group gathered to mourn…and remember…our much-missed friend
Other Children’s Parents
One of the stickiest subjects that your Mom never told you about is how to deal with other people’s kids when they are in your care or how to handle dropping your kid off with others. While it is possible you’ll never hit a bump in the road, it’s likely that at some point, something will go wrong.
The Second Life Of A Rusty Tugboat
There’s just something entrancing about rusty things. Just beneath the surface usually lies an interesting story. Some are obvious or easy to discover, while others remain a mystery forever leaving the observers to their own imagination.
A Polar Bear’s First Journey
When the cubs are rested up, the babies will wake up and play until mom is ready to get up and continue on another leg of their journey. Walk, nurse, rest, play, walk and repeat. This routine continues on for the next forty or so miles until mom can get to the Bay to finally enjoy the seal buffet.
Pripyat
oh my beloved village
summer wind
forests, pine woods
where are you going?
stone road
in a dead zone
The Catholic Church and Homosexuality: “Who Am I to Judge?”
While a recent article by a Jesuit intellectual makes a valiant attempt to open the door for a more conciliatory approach in the Church’s dealing with LGBTQ people, in the end it misses the mark.
GALAPAGOS – Forty Days and Forty Nights – An Artist’s Sojourn
The Galapagos Islands are isolated from other land masses, straddling the equator with Ecuador, the nearest land, 960 km to the east. They consist of 13 large islands, 6 smaller islands and many islets in the most active oceanic volcanic region in the world.
Writing with the Tide
Abandonment from or by one’s muse can muddy the waters of a writer’s creative flow, but sometimes life’s eddies and deltas beckon us on warm inlets of tempting diversions. I’m grateful that over the years of my comings and goings from my commitment to writing the words have been generous in returning, much like the tide.
My Grandfather Blue Moon (John Karvanen)
My grandfather died before I had the opportunity to know him. I heard he had a really tough life, and died a broken man on the streets of Vancouver. I did not know which band he came from or where he was born, and went on a journey to find some knowledge about his life.
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