Greetings to my readers, and let me wish everyone a safe and Happy Holiday Season! Whatever you celebrate – and even if you don’t – I hope you are able to find some downtime, some rest and rejuvenation, not *just* over the holidays but moving ahead into 2021. It’s become a bit cliche to say, […]

A discussion on a Facebook group prompted me to share a bit about my life and work in TTouch, which I plan to pick up more energetically this year. The whole process of learning what TTouch has to offer is something that can be hard to explain –  and extraordinarily so to those who want […]

Another long entry  repost from my article for Plant Healer Magazine, sometime last year. I think many of my students will benefit. The pitfalls and promises of working with animals. Reversing the Flow My last article for this magazine was all about how the way in which we manage domestic animal’s health impacts on not […]

You know those little funny, cute, goofy things we all say to dogs when we love them so much and we’re focused on them day to day? Yeah – you who are reading this blog surely do. I had a few of those with my Luke…Wildewit’s African Jabulani – a few, well more like many […]

“The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough” Rabindranath Tagore There is something about the late afternoon in springtime, the force and slant of the sun, that brings about in me  this tendency to reflection. I have always been affected by light; I once stared at a particularly moving Corot in the […]

“Dogs are our link to paradise. They don’t know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring–it was peace.” – Milan Kundera

He is my other eyes that can see above the clouds; my other ears that hear above the winds. He is the part of me that can reach out into the sea. He has told me a thousand times over that I am his reason for being; by the way he rests against my leg; […]

I’ve loved this one ever since I first read it, somewhere online, many years ago. How true, start to finish (although I know none of you would be using a choke collar!) I lie belly-upIn the sunshine, happier thanYou ever will be. Today I sniffedMany dog butts — I celebrateBy kissing your face. I sound […]