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Blog postHarbinger of spring. © 2018 Susan J. Kroupa Keeping an eye out. . . © 2018 Susan J. Kroupa Spring is here! Naturally, the robins were the harbingers, the early birds, so to speak.
A few days ago, on the first warmish sunny day in a long time, I went out to the garden and saw the first bumblebee of the season. I grabbed my camera, which I’d brought out with me, but by the time I got close enough to focus, the bee shot up from the dandelion and zoomed across the garden -
Blog postRuff-Housed I was beyond delighted when I learned that the fifth book in the series, Ruff-Housed, won the Dog Writers Association of America (DWAA) AKC S.T.A.R. Puppy and Canine Good Citizen Award sponsored by the American Kennel Club for the best writing about the AKC Canine Good Citizen Program. (Yeah, that’s a mouthful, but I wanted the description to be accurate.)
In Ruff-Housed, Doodle has to take the Canine Good Citizen test (CGC). The CGC is basically a test of canine be -
Blog postTaking Flight. © 2015 Tom Hidley Shadow is gone.
In my last post, Not Looking Good for Our Hero, I told how we came home after Christmas to find Shadow barely able to walk. In just a few days, he lost the ability to stand on his own. Over the next few weeks, our local vet (whose entire staff gave him excellent care) treated him for a spinal embolism, a condition that often has a good outcome. When that showed no results and his condition worsened, we scheduled a consultation wit -
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Blog postOne of Shadow’s many friends comes to visit before he goes to the vet hospital. Photo by Jenny Brown. If you’ve read any of my Doodlebugged books or followed this blog, you know that Doodle is the alter ego of my dog, Shadow. Granted, Doodle is smarter and even more trouble prone than Shadow, and able to earn a living, something Shadow has never attained, nor (to my knowledge) aspired to. But Doodle’s prove-it-to-me attitude, his sense of being equal to or (more likely) superior to any of th
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Blog postBundles of Cheer for Holiday Readers!
Balance Due: a Christmas Short Story Second chances can come wrapped in strange packages.
The last thing Allen needs two days before Christmas is a shivering dog on his doorstep. Just one more thing to deal with on the anniversary of the worst day of his life. And what’s he going to do with a stray when all the shelters are closed for the holidays? He doesn’t even like dogs.
But this dog is full of surprises, and before lon -
Blog postAn Enthusiastic Totality Seeker. © 2017 Susan J. Kroupa The Grand Goal: TOTALITY The Lesser Goals: 1. Get as close to the center of totality as possible
2. Avoid traffic
3. Find a place with restrooms and shade
4. Avoid going blind
The Details: When my son, Joe, an attorney in Arlington and an avid photographer, suggested we travel to see the eclipse, it sounded fun. I mean, Totality! Within a four-hour drive from our house.
But then I read the Di -
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Blog postA very long year… It’s been fourteen months since my last blog about the extraordinary support we received during my daughter’s illness and death from colon cancer. (And, again, if you’re due for a colonoscopy, please don’t put it off. Yeah, the prep tastes like fruit punch infused with rusted metal and laced with turpentine, but a day’s discomfort is nothing compared to having cancer or watching someone you love have cancer. Absolutely nothing.)
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Blog postIf Christmas is about helping people in need, then this is a Christmas story.
On December 11, almost seven months after she was diagnosed with colorectal cancer and only a day short of her 34th birthday, my daughter, Sarah, passed away.
Sarah with Aaron, the baby who was born right after her cancer was discovered. I am not going to write here about our grief, or the devastating loss her absence leaves for all who loved her, especially her husband and five young children. -
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Blog postShadow leads the way on a walk in the hills above Utah Valley I’m a sporadic blogger at best, but the last post here was April 13, seven months ago. As Doodle would say, “Whoa.” The blog was titled, “Times, They Are A’ Changing.” That turned out to be sadly prophetic in a way I couldn’t have possibly foreseen. Our lives have undergone a sea change, or, as I prefer to say, a C-change.
Merriam-webster.com defines sea change as “a marked change; transformation,” and dictionary -
Blog postShadow’s barks, urgent in their “this is important” tone, made me look outside with curiosity. Outside, the air was a chilly seven degrees and the wind made the “feels like” temperature well below zero. What could he be barking at? He was at the end of the driveway, edging forward and then darting back as if something might be after him.
What’s up? In warmer weather, I might have worried about a bear. We saw one from our dining room window the October before, and once in early summer -
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