For we are always what our situations hand us
It’s either sadness or euphoria. Billy Joel
Day: March 26, 2020
My Perpetual Puppy
I have been so blessed to experience the unconditional love of a dog. And now I must experience the emptiness and loss of this wonderful dog. Our Penny Girl. Our perpetual puppy. My sweet girl. This dog was my soul for 13 beautiful years. Life without her is tough. She was a feral little girl – kind of scared and timid. And yet – put her outside and this dog was totally in her element. SHe ran faster than any dog I have ever seen. She was thrilled to go for walks, and lived to explore the outdoors. I am certain that she was part coyote. And she was my friend, maybe my best friend. She looked for me, she trusted me, and she comforted me. 
Pictures of my sweet girl…
As I just reread this post, I don’t want to do an injustice to another great dog of ours….Pepper. Pepper was very different from Penny. We were Pepper’s pack. Pepper just wanted to be with us at all times. She didn’t love the outdoors, she didn’t love running around with other dogs….she just loved us.
Our Bubba-Dog:
Powerful Words
Some words when spoken can’t be taken back. Words can sting, words can hurt. Words are remembered long after they are spoken.
The 2 most powerful phrases – I’m sorry and Thank-you.
There are somethings that can never be put back the way they were….. like that little box of tissues. They come out easily, intertwined with the next one. But it is impossible to put them back the same way.
major changes in my lifetime
Looking back through past generations, I sometimes think how old fashioned they were. And, it’s kind of funny because I know that they probably felt they were so modern just as we do now. Times change so rapidly. What’s new becomes old and out of touch so quickly. What seemed so radical at the time, now looking back seems so
the really big invention in my lifetime so far was the internet. I remember my husband coming into my office at IBM with these diskettes that he said had the ‘internet on them’ – that old black spider crawler. How funny. . I thought he was crazy – and thought why do I need all this useless information…
things that have become outdated or radically changed in my lifetime so far: encyclopedias for information, dressing up for travel – flying – pan am, black and white tv and the different sizes of tv – remember those huge heavy clunky tv’s, phone service and long distance, segregation and busing, maps, computers, cameras, gps, INTERNET, cell phones