Category Archives: rescue

One More Beautiful Voice in Doggie Heaven

Posted on September 3, 2018 by Monica

We said good-bye to our beautiful collie dog Beau last week.  As usual, Beau was in charge.  He refused food for six days and rested on the seventh. We had time the evening before and morning of to caress him … Continue reading →

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Lost Canyon Adventure

Posted on April 29, 2018 by Monica

After graduating from college in California, we moved to Michigan, where my husband started law school.  The weather there is bitterly cold in winter and so hot in summer that life doesn’t seem worth living (before the days of universal … Continue reading →

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Resolved: I Will Be Ruthless

Posted on April 28, 2018 by Monica

Resolved: I Will Be Ruthless or The Ruthless Reptile Sheds her Skin No crime drama just an aging woman’s search for herself abandoned on the shifting shore of accommodation lost in the dryer with the single sock neglected in the … Continue reading →

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D-Day Landings/Normandy Invasion June 6, 1944

Posted on June 6, 2017 by Monica

The Cliffs of Normandy Fifty years after, walking on flat ground above the water, vast to the sight and empty yet, steel blue, placid like the black cows grazing on the furrowed field sky a colored mirror watching, waiting, breath … Continue reading →

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One More Face — Lily, Puppy Mill Rescue

Posted on February 27, 2016 by Monica

This is Lily, and here is her story. Puppy Mills Cruelty thrives in dark places smelling foul in confined spaces secrets kept with our consent living creatures we do torment. Through the mill they’re forced each day crushing and grinding … Continue reading →

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Sometimes Rescuers Need Rescuing

Posted on February 23, 2016 by Monica

I’m posting a communication from Ellicott Wildlife Rehabilitation Center.  It includes before and shortly-after pictures of an owl being rehabilitated after hitting a window at high speed. Ellicott is an all-volunteer non-profit 501(c)(3) organization rescuing birds and other wildlife since … Continue reading →

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