Healing is not a straight line
Over the past couple of days, I've seen things on Facebook (🙄) that previously would have thrown me for a loop. My heart would have been...
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Lori Nanan
- Jul 27
- 3 min
Ch-ch-ch-changes.
Almost exactly one week ago to the hour, I landed in Maryland. The first step towards a new life in Baltimore. My husband, my dog and I...
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Lori Nanan
- Jun 5
- 4 min
Hot take: your dog isn’t having as much fun as you think
I have long held what is clearly an unpopular opinion: your dog does not need to go everywhere with you. Because I've lived in a tourist...
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Lori Nanan
- May 2
- 5 min
Healing and pecorino
I've been home from a week in Italy for just over a week now. I've spent most of that time nursing a cold made worse thanks to jet lag....
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Lori Nanan
- Apr 5
- 3 min
You'll Never Know.
You'll never know how alone he is. You'll never know the darkness he overcomes almost daily. Darkness that could swallow other people...
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Lori Nanan
- Jan 31
- 5 min
31 Days Away.
As a bit of a New Year's resolution, I decided to take an Instagram hiatus. To make it doable, I set a goal of going Insta-free for the...
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Lori Nanan
- Jan 7
- 8 min
Suddenly I see
I woke up early this morning to the sound of a thud, the sight of a magazine rack and colorful pages scattered on the floor. In a dream,...
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Lori Nanan
- Dec 23, 2022
- 4 min
They can’t all be lying. Right?
I've been thinking a lot about the changes I've experienced the past few years. Thinking about how back in 2018, I felt like I would...
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Lori Nanan
- Dec 14, 2022
- 6 min
My dog is getting old.
Hazel started limping yesterday for seemingly no reason. Interestingly, I had been thinking about how she hadn't done the little hop-skip...
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Lori Nanan
- Nov 2, 2022
- 3 min
I didn't want to. I did it anyway.
I really didn't want to go to the gym today. My husband is away for 2 weeks, and I have assigned myself many tasks to complete in his...
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Lori Nanan
- Oct 21, 2022
- 3 min
WHAT is happening?
"...I'll be sitting here, in the same spot, still idle, when you get back" I think to myself when my husband yells up to my "office" to...
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Lori Nanan
- Oct 4, 2022
- 3 min
Juxtaposed
Recently, I've been thinking a lot about juxtapositions. This started because a couple of weeks ago, I put my cat to sleep on a Monday...
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Lori Nanan
- Sep 18, 2022
- 8 min
The Truth About Love
The other day, a friend told me about a bit from the comedian Marc Maron's show. Apparently, Maron is a cat lover and has some thoughts...
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Lori Nanan
- Sep 6, 2022
- 2 min
My Disappearing Digital Footprint
When I left my part time job and subsequently closed my business in the dog training industry, I foolishly deleted a lot of the work I...
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Lori Nanan
- Feb 9, 2022
- 6 min
UNSETTLED
This piece was originally published on Medium in May, 2020 (It’s also only ever been edited by me, so all errors, grammatical or...
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Lori Nanan
- May 10, 2020
- 6 min
Fear Cutting Your Dog’s Nails No More
This blog originally appeared on Your Pit Bull & You, a nonprofit I ran from 2013-2018. How to Cut Your Dog’s Nails Without Causing Them...
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Lori Nanan
- May 10, 2020
- 3 min
Five Tips To Successfully Trim A Dog’s Nails
Earlier this week, I recorded a podcast (Animal Training Academy Training Tidbits) and I was asked what were my five top tips to...
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Lori Nanan
- May 8, 2020
- 7 min
The Nail of the Dog
A version of this blog was written for Your Pit Bull & You, the nonprofit I ran from 2013-2018. It served as the inspiration for Nailed...
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