Life With Lucy

Communication is Key

I will always love this picture for what it represents. While part of her reason for getting here was the shade, the other was that she was in her last days, and she was just tired. Maybe she didn’t think I was hitting them that well,……

Life With Lucy

Happy Father’s Day!!!

On Thanksgiving weekend of 2011 I brought home a dog. A rescue dog. Not a pup to raise from scratch. The first few years, in retrospect, were hilarious. Imagine a bachelor father has an instant teenage daughter. My dog was not going to put up with my behavior, and I was growing quite weary of hers. But real love, IMHO, is a funny thing. It is better when we work at it. I said I was…….

Adventure Dog

Just a Little Trust

As a set in his ways, crotchety old bachelor, I find it a waste of time to think about dating. Especially ……..

Life With Lucy

Ideas Into Action

Early on in my time with Lucy I had some serious decisions to make. It really came down to giving her up to someone else or coming up with actionable ideas to make it work. People said dogs are this way or that way. I mean dog experts were saying that. I was not seeing that in Lucy. But I came up with….

Life With Lucy

Real Friendship

They say you have to be smarter than your Jack Russell, but I say you don’t have to be smarter when you have a dog …..

Life With Lucy

What Do They Know?

These eyes did a lot of talking. These eyes called me out on my own bs. When I spoke to her she seemed to understand. She knew what….

Life With Lucy

Today is THE Day

This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. Psalms 118:24
There is a lot on everyone’s mind today. Good things, maybe….

Life With Lucy

Easter, The Redemption, Rebirth Holiday

Today is my favorite holiday, bar none. On the previous two days before todays’ celebratory event, I like to imagine the grief that was felt among his followers. They felt…..

Life With Lucy

What is LOVE?

I really do believe the word love has been hijacked. Love means so much more to me than how our culture uses the word. Like the 5 love……