Poem for Today: Pawprints and Raindrops
I awoke to gentle rain this morning, raindrops tapping on the roof and softly whispering in the trees all around
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pet loss
CCPC Pet Memorial Sunday Ceremony “A Day For Remembering”
I am a speaker at this annual event, and Chartiers Custom Pet Cremation is one of my customers. This is
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Attachments
THIS IS THE fourth installment of my series “Attachments” which discusses the things I’ve developed attachments to because they have
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Rescue Story: July 10, 2007, A Memory
I know that one of my daughters lived here because I saw her at the window and talked to her
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Of Flowers and Memorial Day
My parents’ generation called Memorial Day “Decoration Day”. It was the weekend to clear away the weeds, trim the grass,
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Daily Photo: Remembrances
It happens every year—the bleeding heart peeks out from under the leaves when the daffodils are blooming, then suddenly it’s
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Things I Found in the Woods, Poetry, Loss and Love
Things I Found in the Woods Dedicated to Moses, the most gentle, loving being I have ever encountered. Tiny rivulets
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The Cats in My Garden
Years ago, while I was still working in my day job, I also did a fair amount of freelancing in
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Returning to an Old Project
“…what a creative inspiration he was for me as a painter and writer and photographer, even as a designer of
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Friends at the End
In early 1996 it became clear that Kublai wasn’t recovering through strictly medical means from the mystery illness that had
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