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My mom has a dog named Toby.  Toby has one purpose in life: to love and protect my mom.  And he devotes every minute of his life to this purpose.  He follows Mom everywhere she goes.  He sits on her chair while she eats.  He sleeps next to her.  When she watches TV, he watches it, too.  He’s always on …

My heart is breaking tonight.  I have tear stains on my glasses and tissues scattered all around me.  A dear, dear friend of mine talked to me tonight about some hard things she was going through.  I looked into her eyes, listened to her cry, and held her in my arms.  She felt like a fragile, wounded bird.  And she …

I love the show “Little House on the Prairie.”  One of my favorite episodes is “The Third Miracle.”  Mary Ingalls and her husband, Adam, are traveling by stagecoach to meet a train.  But on the road, an axle on the stagecoach breaks, and it flips over and rolls down a hill.  Adam is pinned under the stagecoach, the driver is …

I recently discovered filters—those magical lighting and color changes you can apply to photos.  I’m a proud mom to three cats, and since I’ve found filters, my poor cats have been stalked by me as though by the most persistent TMZ paparazzo.  They know the sound when I take my phone out and turn the camera on.  And they hate …

I’m not an agile person.  I’m not a nimble person.  I have been known to trip over my own feet.  I broke an ankle once just getting out of bed.  My husband tells me I should wear a helmet—all the time, around the house.  And my family jokes that I should be wrapped in a layer of bubble wrap. Maybe …

We have a cat named Mackin.  He’s . . . special.  Brains aren’t his most outstanding quality.  Our other two cats love to drink out of the sink.  Mackin sits in the sink and licks the drain.  Our other two cats chase flies and moths.  Mackin watches them for a minute, then runs off to get a ball.  Our other …

Last night, I went to a Colorado Rockies game with my husband, parents, brother, and his family. I sat in a stadium of 50,000 people. I was in the middle of a tightly packed row where making a quick exit was impossible. And after the game, I walked back to our car with my husband and got stuck in bumper …