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Pandemic Love for Neighbors as Ourselves

Pandemic Love for Neighbors as Ourselves

by Carole Duff | Apr 11, 2022 | Dogs & Other Creatures, Family | 2 comments

Curly, Cato, and Slick – photographed by “Shirley” “I’m writing about the pandemic and would like your opinion,” I said to my neighbor Shirley [name changed] as we walked. We had three dogs on leash—mine and two from another neighbor who is unable to...
History Keepers on The Perennial Gen

History Keepers on The Perennial Gen

by Carole Duff | Mar 7, 2022 | Dogs & Other Creatures, Family | 4 comments

History Keepers appeared last week on The Perennial Gen as part of this month’s theme based on Michelle Van Loon’s just-released and highly recommended book Translating Your Past. *** During Mother’s years in assisted care, I made the daytrip to share lunch with her...
Forgiveness: February’s theme on The Perennial Gen

Forgiveness: February’s theme on The Perennial Gen

by Carole Duff | Feb 7, 2022 | Dogs & Other Creatures, Faith, Writing and Reading | 2 comments

Forgiveness requires us to own up to our sins and confront our brothers and sisters in Christ when they do wrong. Today, I revisit a post about the former, published by The Perennial Gen last Friday as Learning to Speak Forgiveness, and a version of which first...
Soul Care When You’re Grieving

Soul Care When You’re Grieving

by Carole Duff | Nov 8, 2021 | Dogs & Other Creatures, Faith, Family, Nature, Writing and Reading | 2 comments

Cato and Freya have been grieving, since Heathcliff died in June. Twelve-year-old Freya keeps mostly to herself, but three-year-old Cato has seemed lost. For a while, he refused breakfast, as Heathcliff had toward the end, and curled in his crate. Freya has done...

Adopting and Caring for a Foster Dog

by Carole Duff | Jun 28, 2021 | Dogs & Other Creatures | 0 comments

Adopting a foster dog Last year, Keith and I adopted a foster dog who’d been rescued then cared for at our local shelter and fostered at a local day camp, training, and boarding facility. We named him Cato. When we first brought Cato home, he pulled on his leash and...
Adopting and Caring for a Rescue Dog

Adopting and Caring for a Rescue Dog

by Carole Duff | Jun 21, 2021 | Dogs & Other Creatures | 0 comments

Adopting a rescue dog Keith and I talked about adopting another shelter dog—a rescue dog as it turned out, a buddy for Heathcliff to play with once we retired to Vanaprastha. So, when that happened in 2012, we’d already picked up a flyer from Almost Home volunteers,...
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