I fell. Outside. With Harper. Last night. My feet slipped out from under me. Hello, sidewalk. Meet the back of my head. Thud. First thought: Am I conscious? Second thought:Where’s Harper? ***** In addition to holding a harness, Seeing Eye dog users also attach a leash to our dogs, then loop the other end around […]

Before we left the Seeing Eye last week (Wow! Have we been home a week already?) our instructor read me Harper’s “puppy profile.”. Each person who volunteers to raise a puppy for the Seeing Eye is asked to write up a little report. You know, to let us in on what our dogs lives were […]

I am the youngest of seven, and I have 16 nieces and nephews. Eleven of those nieces and nephews have children of their own. One of my nieces has two grandchildren already! As Mike likes to say, “It’s not a family. It’s a nation!” Buying Christmas gifts for this brood is out of the question. […]

I’ve always known my husband is a great writer. Now you all know that, too! A gargantuan thank you to Mike Knezovich for keeping the Safe & Sound blog going while I was away. He did such a tremendous job that now I have some big shoes to fill. Thank goodness for photos of cute […]

So Monday night I got home and there was no impossibly frantic tail-wagging and jumping up on the hind legs. And I felt, for the first time since Beth left for Morristown, alone. It was a particular kind of aloneness that I’ve felt before. Like the weeks on end I spent in Urbana while Beth […]