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My First Dog Love When you find a dog that melts every part of your heart, you know that this dog is part of your family and part of your life unconditionally. Years ago, I lost my dog Buddy after 12 years. It was heart-wrenching to watch him go over the Rainbow Bridge and notContinue reading “My Cuddle Muffin”

A Mother’s Love…. by ELAINE GALLAGHER 14 days ago in PARENTS What is a Mother?Photo by Paweł Czerwiński on Unsplash What is a Mother’s Love? A mother’s love is like nothing else in the world. It knows no boundaries and will crush anything that stands in its path. It is an unconditional love, with no strings attached. You love your child forContinue reading “What Is A Mother ?”

What is gratitude? Gratitude is the quality of being thankful. It also means the readiness to show appreciation for kindness and to be willing to return kindness. Gratitude is a feeling of thankfulness for what you have and not always wanting more. When you are grateful, you acknowledge the goodness in your life and feelContinue reading “What is Gratitude?”

What is happiness? Can it be defined in a word, in a sentence, in a song? Why are we not happy even when things are going right in our lives? Do we know what happiness really is? Did you know that happiness does not depend on what we have? Happiness depends on how we feelContinue reading “What is Happiness?”

It is the end of December of one of the worst years most of us have lived through and we are counting the days until 2021, with hope in our hearts…. Some people lost loved ones, some people lost jobs and others just survived the consequences and loneliness of isolation and separation because of theContinue reading “A New Year With New Hope”

This year we will be writing different kinds of Christmas lists. Most of them will not include extravagant gifts but rather necessities that we will get for Christmas after surviving this tumultuous year. When thinking about Christmas this year, there is nothing material that I need and I am very thankful for that. So IContinue reading “All I Want for Christmas”

It is the middle of November and all the news broadcasts talk about limiting number of guests for Thanksgiving, closing bars and restaurants early, limiting gym and bowling alley times and even potentially schools going back to remote. The numbers are up in most states and people are starting to feel a new frenzy andContinue reading “Preparing For Next Lockdown”

I don’t know about you but I am looking forward to this election day being over. Aren’t you tired of those political ads that just bash each other? Neither one is saying what they will really do if they become president, rather they are just saying horrible “facts” about the other. We have become aContinue reading “Election Day Havoc”

Do you remember your mother or grandmother telling you to always make sure your bed is made before you leave the house? Do you tend to clean right before going on a vacation? Many of us have this in our heads that God forbid we have an accident and do not return to our homes,Continue reading “Life Interrupted”

How many of you remember where you were on September 11, 2001? I remember that I was teaching a math lesson and had no idea what was going on in the world around me. It was a typical, beautiful September day without a cloud in the sky and we were getting ready to do ourContinue reading “19 Years Later…… Still Painful”