Category Archives: Family

Flashback Friday: Still Developing

I’d been running into him in the darkroom all semester. I was a goner for the red hair and crooked smile as I stalked him watched him from a distance. Quizzing my friend, who had gotten to know him, revealed that he was new to the college. He had been in the Air Force, and he...

More Dog Love

Have I said yet how much I love this dog? I would not want to imagine life without her.She is so attentive.  She hangs on every word. Her eyes, well, they just capture you. They invite you to tell her all your secrets because, unlike the Bush’s Baked Beans Dog, …she is very trust-worthy and...

Monkeyin’ Around the Christmas Tree

As I sat staring at the Christmas tree, trying to gather my thoughts together all in one place, something seemed kinda odd.  The tree has been decorated for days now… but there seemed to be some new ornaments added which had not been there before.  Four of them to be exact.  All identical.  They seemed...

She is NOT an L.L.Bean Cover Model

I had always wanted a Golden Retriever.  I grew up drooling over them in the L.L.Bean catalog.  They have always used the most cuddly looking fur-babies in their advertising.  They are often pictured jumping off the end of a dock into Lake Sebago or bounding across the Sand Beach in Acadia, Maine in the Summer...

Leash or Tail?

So I am hiking along with my youngest and our fur baby and I look down and see this:It actually took me a minute to realize she thought she was ‘walking the dog’.  I had the leash and… well… she had her ‘leash’ too.  It was rather comical since the dog was so happy that...

Hiking Toward Home