• Goodbye Summer

    It feels like now is the right time to finally write this piece. The beginning of September marks the end of summer, meteorologically speaking. If you’re a child returning to school it’s the end of vacation. Astronomically, the end of summer falls on September 22, leading us into the autumnal equinox. All that to say,…

  • The Eleventh Hour: Tick Tock for TikTok

    It is the Eleventh Hour. Time is running out. “Tick Tock,” goes the clock for TikTok. I am here not to defend nor condemn this wildly popular app. If what we are hearing and reading in the news, in a very short amount of time all of Americans who have the app on their devices…

  • Man Bites Dog

    “If it bleeds, it leads” is what I heard applied to news stories. I think we can all agree that it takes much less these days to make news. One inappropriate comment on a late night talk show gets as much press coverage as a catastrophic hurricane. I learned about another journalism bit of wisdom…

  • Have you heard about The Herd?

    (8 minute read) A group of giraffes is called a tower. A gathering of zebras is a dazzle. A loveliness of ladybugs. A snuggle of sloths. A smack of jellyfish. A mob of Kangaroos. A conspiracy of lemurs. The collective nouns for penguins are raft, waddle, rookery, colony, and huddle; But flamingos in a group…

  • Puppies’ First Halloween

    Koda and Summer are experiencing their first Halloween. It is sure to be exciting with the doorbell ringing all evening long. While I will not be bringing them to the front door to greet the little trick-or-treaters, I will put them in their costumes and let them jump up on the puppy gate to watch.…

  • Hey Shark Tank, How About These Product Ideas?

    Some of the best products are thought up when people find solutions to common problems. I do not consider myself an inventor or an entrepreneur but I am a solution finder. Lately several things are driving me nuts: wet aussiedoodle beards, mud tracked into the house by the dogs, and accidentally getting dog doo on…

  • Impromptu Poodle Party

    Impromptu poodle party on our way past the puppies’ pals’ pad. It’s true. It was a pod of part poodle puppies we purposely passed while on our poop walk. Pardon me if I politely part from this particular perpetuation of using the letter P while I describe the details of this part poodle pal imprompto…

  • Beware of the Green-Eyed Monster Dog

    In the darkness of the windowless room, I can just make out the outline of the black figure and sharp white fangs. Suddenly the eery green tint fills the eyes. This spooky scene is not what I expected to experience this morning at our visit to the vet. It is fitting for an appointment in…

  • They are HUGE! Huuuuge!

    These puppies do not even look like puppies anymore. I think they were the size of aussiedoodle puppies for maybe ten minutes and then BAM! They sprouted these long legs! If I sound like this has taken be by surprise, that is true. Somehow I thought we were getting two midsize Aussiedoodles. They are six…