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“Dogs are our link to paradise. They don’t know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring — it was peace.” – Milan Kundera (Author, The Unbearable Lightness of Being) I keep saying that someday I’m going to make a …
(I promised to share this story sometime and it seemed the right time now. It was first published in The Dog Next Door: And Other Stories of the Dogs We Love by Callie Smith Grant.) I was nine when I got the dog hunger. I wanted a dog with every inch of my fiber. So much that I would have traded …
“Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one is a life diminished.” ~Dean Koontz Did you know it was National Dog Day? Maybe a better question is did you even know there was a National Dog Day? The only reason I do is because of Facebook. We dog lovers are always ready for a chance to post …
You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children. ~Madeleine L’Engle Have you read books by Madeleine L’Engle? Her most famous novel is A Wrinkle in Time. Walt Disney released a movie based on her story not long ago. I haven’t seen the movie. The …
“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.” ~Marcus Tullius Cicero It’s green bean time in our garden. I grow stick beans. Those are beans that you have to supply something for the vines to grow up onto. We use an overhead wire strung between wooden posts and then twine strings attached to the wire …
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. ~Albert Einstein A couple of weeks ago I went with my son’s family on a trip and on one of the days, we visited an aquarium. I’ve been to aquariums several times …
I don’t think I ever finished a book by reading with a flashlight under a cover, but I might have if I’d had a flashlight with batteries that lasted. When I was a kid, flashlights were more luxury than something on every shelf. Most of the time the one we did have seemed to always be lacking batteries and if …
Bibliophile – a person who has a great appreciation for or collects books. Are you a bibliophile? I guess I could say I am since I do love books and have collected a few over the years. Have even written my share. When I think about all the words that have flowed through my fingers onto paper or a typewriter …
A day late and a dollar short. I’m sure you’ve heard that phrase often. Maybe you even said it about something or other or someone or other. I’m usually the one that’s a little late and a dollar short. That just means I was late getting something done and without all the resources I might need. I figured that saying …
