Goose has been out in the world, despite not being fully vaccinated. Puppies receive their full set of puppy vaccinations, three rounds total, around 16 weeks, and Goose is due to receive his third and final round next week.

 

It’s a delicate balance, or rather it feels like a dicey game of Russian roulette every time he ventur...

 

 

Naomi recently joined a book club at one of her after school programs, and she is loving it. The idea of being a part of a book club is a thrill for her. I’m Mama now, she says. A reader, who goes off into the world to discuss the things she is reading. Naomi, my most self-aware child, although that bar is quite low considering the other two, aske...

 

 

Goose, our would-be shop dog, is an Australian Cattle Dog, which is supposed to be a very intelligent breed. I’ve heard it go as high as a fifth grader, which is food for thought, because my actual sixth grader is not able to remember what his homework is when he comes home from school, much less convince a cattle to move anywhere.

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Greetings from my desk of chaos. Actually, it looks pretty good right now—but pretty good is subjective and also relative for someone whose desk usually looks like many minor stationery explosions that have happened over the course of several years and have fossilized for eternity.

 

I have moved recently and part of that invol...