4 days until D-Day – or shall I say the B-Day ( although, technically, GG’s birthday is indeed D-Day/Pearl Harbor ). Anyway, she’s turning 6 on Sunday, and I’m not quite sure what to do with myself. I don’t know if has to do with hormonal stuff that women go through when they reach a certain age, or...

The search is over : Charley found us; and we're proud to announce that we're new parents and GG's the new big sister of Charley, a four-month old Shih-Poo. I say he found us because we had actually answered Sunday's newspaper ad in response to a different puppy. On Monday, before we...

We're expecting. This is how I found out about it. A few weeks ago when GG had gone to bed, my husband and I were chatting when he said "Just so you know (followed by the most pregnant of pauses ever known to man)....I told GG she could have a puppy for her birthday." Since I didn't...

John Lennon once said that "life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." True enough. But thinking about life in those terms alone makes life seem too random, sometimes cruel and somewhat hopeless; so I juxtapose that statement with "all things work together for...