Archive for August, 2010

Full Spectrum Awareness One of the most awkward situations for me is to find myself among a particular group of  dog- or cat-lovers  who assume I’m a kindred spirit. The distinguishing feature of these folks isn’t just that they’re head over heels in love with dogs or cats—a lot of people are, including me. What [...]

  Every once in a while I get distracted by a phone call or something else while I’m proof-reading a blog. If I’m almost near the end of it, my distracted little brain may decide I’ve finished it. Said distracted little brain then deletes “proof-read podcast blog” from the mental do-list and replaces it with [...]

Perfect Fit Teaching Once years ago I was complaining to friend about how difficult it was to find clothes that fit me. What can I say? I’m not a matched set. Either some other female got my boobs or I got her butt.  As so often happens in such conversations, the idea of buying clothes [...]

Babies, Dogs, and Excuses Any couple who has expected a child knows how much busier life can become during the pregnancy. So many baby-related things to do! And if there’s a dog in household, chances are some of the items on that seemingly endless do-list are about baby-dog issues. In this podcast, I ponder how [...]

The 100th Podcast One of the things that happens when I record a podcast is that, as with my writing, it sometimes doesn’t go where I plan it should go when I start. This happens even when I have a list of points I want to cover. Usually I manage to get the first few [...]

Blind­-Sided Yet Again In all the year I’ve been writing commentaries, I’ve never received as many emails as I did for the July commentary on the service animal dilemma. These were sufficiently numerous and thought-provoking that I pondered them while enjoying the sites in Colorado and mastering a new computer and its software.     [...]