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Arizona Humane Society, Chihuahuas, Dog Rescue, Dogs, Door into the Dark, Greyhound, Loss, Love, Mary Oliver, Memoir, Rites of passage, Seamus Heaney, Starting over, The Midnight Anvil
for national dog day – an emotional rescue
A dog can never tell you what she knows from the smells of the world, but you know, watching her, that you know almost nothing.” ― Mary Oliver, Dog Songs First there was Molly, a retired racer who loved me. We had rescued her in the Christmas of 2008, on the heels of a spectacular crisis in my professional life, and she lifted my heart. Molly adored me, and the feeling was mutual. Elegant and affectionate, she knew how to be retired. But the separation anxiety was too much for her, and because I was unable to spend every minute of the day with her, I had to surrender her…
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omagh – “remember these dead”
Lest we forget
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“I Had to Go See About a Girl” ~ thank you, Robin Williams
Robin Williams – a year later.
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A Moment of Silence
The day before our 22nd wedding anniversary was the day my husband died, and I was on the other side of the world in Barney Devlin’s Forge – in the heart of Heaney country. I walked there again this past Father’s Day morning, in the rain and under a grey sky with my oldest, dearest friend. By the time we reached the Hillhead, there was no rain and the sky bright and blue. As if someone had ordered it, the cars stopped whizzing by. Save for the birds, all fell silent. Inexplicably, at first, I was compelled to reach for my phone to begin recording the silence. I even told my friend to be…
