One of the myriad of phrases Mr. Tweaks, who we lost on January 29th understood was “show me.” We knew that he knew what it meant...

Descendant from Wolves, dogs are nearly perfect save one design flaw, their lives are far too short. We lost the one who was closest to...

“Hope is a waking dream.” ― Aristotle In what seems like a whole lifetime ago in the mid-1980s, I walked into a recovery fellowship...

In the first week of January, Julie and I watched the JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE Tribute Show webcast from the historic Ryman Auditorium. The...

I started to reflect on being in mid-January. Where I live, it is generally cold. The weather is unpredictable. It is the time of the...

“In the New Year, never forget to thank to your past years because they enabled you to reach today! Without the stairs of the past, you...

“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” ― Confucius I started doing weekly Friday posts Gratitude on October...

Solstice - derived from the Latin sol ("sun") and sistere ("to stand still") We are in the darkest of days. We just passed through the...

“The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a...

“Modern society has perfected the art of making people not feel necessary.” ― Sebastian Junger This week, we observed the entrance of the...

“How did it get so late so soon?” ― Dr. Seuss This is my 57th December. Something to be grateful for. I almost did not make that first...

It’s funny how during Thanksgiving we’re thankful for what we already have but then we practically trample each other for stuff we don’t...

“Honestly, all crows are not ravens” ― Munia Khan Julie and I went out to the movies last week in the town we grew up in, Bethlehem PA....

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of...

“Good veterinarians talk to animals. Great veterinarians hear them talk back.” – unknown Julie and I are dog people. On readback, it...