Love the questions by living the answer
I’ve got a bone to pick with George Eliot. While she is a beloved English novelist and journalist in the Victorian era, she got animals all wrong. “Animals are such agreeable friends,” she once said,...
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I will never forget my first day at the Oshkosh Humane Society. I remember being terrified at first when I was surrounded by people I didn’t know in this strange place. I watched in awe as a pool of...
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I will never forget my second first day at the Oshkosh Humane Society. Yes, friends, you read that right. While it is not a chapter of life I am proud of, I haven’t kept it a secret that I was adopted...
View ArticleOn Self-Esteem: A Book and its Cover
I hate the way my mom looks at herself in the mirror. Or (worse yet) when she avoids looking at herself entirely because of the disdain for the body looking back at her. I know it’s a common issue...
View ArticleAdventure Becomes Us
I knew as soon as we woke up that today would be special. There was a sense of adventure in the air. And, like most emotions, it’s contagious. The funny thing is, I don’t think my forever people were...
View ArticleRemembering Wiley
He kind of annoyed me at first. The people at the shelter called him Wiley and my first impression of him resonated perfectly with his name. He was small, but you wouldn’t have known it from all the...
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