If you have dogs listen……Last night bed time came earlier than normal. The kids eventually went to bed and the house was all quiet except for the Shane Gillis playing on the tv. That’s when Archie started whining and I mean he really needed to go out. I got up and walked into the living […]

On the third day of the Woodstock festival, just before Joe Cocker’s early afternoon set, Max Yasgur addressed the crowd: “I’m a farmer. I don’t know how to speak to twenty people at one time, let alone a crowd like this. But I think you people have proven something to the world — not only […]

I forgot to post this Thursday after all that had happened that day I was really out of it (and probably the lack of sleep this past month) but we went to Olive Garden in little rock after Ellees tests at Children’s hospital and she was starving and I was trying to make a bottle […]

I LOVE THIS ANALOGY: You are holding a cup of coffee when someone comes along and bumps into you or shakes your arm, making you spill your coffee everywhere. Why did you spill the coffee? “Because someone bumped into me!!!” Wrong answer. You spilled the coffee because there was coffee in your cup. Had there […]

As I walked home, something stopped me cold—something quiet, yet unforgettable. There, curled up in a shopping cart, a man slept beneath a threadbare blanket. But what truly caught my eye was just above him: his dog, resting peacefully in a tiny shelter made with striking care. A roof of cardboard and draped fabric, carefully […]

A man walked into a fine-dining restaurant, not asking for a handout, but a seat. He had earned money collecting recyclables on the street and wanted to treat himself to a proper meal. Though the staff offered to waive the $121 bill, he refused. He insisted on paying with dignity, using the wages he’d worked […]

I just adopted him. Straight from the shelter. He left behind the cold floor, the barking, the waiting. But he didn’t let go of his toy. That old plush friend who stayed with him through every lonely night. Tonight, he sleeps differently. Not on concrete. Not alone. But here. Safe. Warm. And the toy? Still […]