All I Ever Wanted Was a Dog

Names have been changed to protect the not so innocent.
When I was a teenager, I had my life planned out. I’d drive a sports car, be a vet, and own my own horse racing stable. I never planned to be a mother.
Mama thought differently. “Embrace motherhood,” she’d say, ‘it’s your destiny and it’s so [...]

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I knew what kind of day it would be when I opened my laundry room door one morning and found my cat doing the backstroke in two inches of water which covered the entire floor. Sloshing past sodden undies (escapees from the clean clothes basket) and plucking an angry kitty off my ankle [...]

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