The holidays are hitting me harder than usual this year.  I know it is the recent decision to put my sweet fur baby Kiki to sleep a month or...

  As I have grieved my fur baby Kiki, I have sought out social media forums and communities dedicated to help grievers cope with that terrib...

  I've been going through another grief journey that has knocked me down pretty hard. Losing a pet is an indescribable grief. In order ...

Someone in a group I belong to told me that I'm in the "deep of grief" and I know that the way grief manifests itself changes ...

  As Kiki got older, I tried to protect myself from this time I am going through. No matter what the vet told me, I was not convinced that s...

  As a person who has gone to sleep watching television forever  because I hate silence and am especially fearful of darkness, I was not in ...

One of the joys in life . . . our pets This is an old Yahoo 360 post that was an entry in  "Picture Perfect" . . . comments follow...

A house is certainly not a home without a dog.  I know this from a very painful experience. After my sweet Betsy passed away, it too...

When I lost my sweet Betsy, the grief was as overwhelming as losing a member of the family.  To make matters worse, it was during the Ch...

Lately I've been thinking about how important having a pet is.  I recently wrote about the day that Buddy the dog ran away and how hea...

There are lazy days like today, when I like to go back through my old blogs and journal entries to get a feel for a moment in time...

My routine has been compromised by the Christmas holiday and The Captain on a different work schedule for the next week or so.  Altho...

Finally . . . a weather warm up in Central Florida. If you read the last post, you will know that I am one happy person today . . ...