looking back

“looking back, my life seemed like one long obstacle race, with me as the chief obstacle” ~Jack Paar Photography by Maggie

IV got a new necklace

iphone picture… we bead necklaces for IV & Nala on occasion. the last necklaces got so worn out the beads turned white. i do not recommend anyone to put necklaces on their animals, it could cause them harm. IV has been wearing them since she was a kitten & it doesnt bother her. Nala is…

my drunk looking husky

We were out at the lake. Look at that beast. My white shadow…he followed me everywhere. I have no shadow anymore. Nala, my other husky, has decided she is a throw rug.

this opening peony looks like a goose tush

shake those tail feathers. peonies remind me of childhood & my mother. my mother loved those peonies way back in the 1970s. i loved them because she did. i am 8 years old & sitting on cold, dark green grass, the taste of the blades so sweet at first, then tasting of old gum. doesn’t…

phones can capture moments

that mean the most. photographs can be art & they can be the best moments captured. unplanned moments that squeeze our hearts when viewed later. at the time, this was my every weekday life. a chore. carpool with my dogs in the back of my old SAAB. I would get my youngest first, then to…

my son & Blue

In fields of gold. We got Blue when my son was 4 months old. They were born a month apart & my son, when he was old enough to talk, would say, “Blue & I are brothers” Blue grew into an old dog while my son remains a boy. We lost Blue in February. This…

imagine if war could be settled this way

It would mean, instead of men marking their territory like dogs, the smartest humans would settle wars. Men & women could use with their brains. But, that’s silly, right? We like it when men behave as beasts pounding their chests, bellowing, “I’m right & you should die” I would think God is shaking his head…