This is our first year in our new home, our new city, our new state. Christmas has been weird since my dad passed in 2011. It hasn't...

I haven't spoken to my mother since the day my father died. On that day, that terrible day, she tried to tell my brother and I that he...

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...

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...

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...

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....

You'll never know how alone he is. You'll never know the darkness he overcomes almost daily. Darkness that could swallow other people...

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...

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,...

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...

Hazel started limping yesterday for seemingly no reason. Interestingly, I had been thinking about how she hadn't done the little hop-skip...

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...

"...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...

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...

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...

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...

This piece was originally published on Medium in May, 2020 (It’s also only ever been edited by me, so all errors, grammatical or...

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...

Earlier this week, I recorded a podcast (Animal Training Academy Training Tidbits) and I was asked what were my five top tips to...

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...