Chandra - Now This Life

This week our house has pretty much been all puppy, all the time. Thought I might as well give in and succumb completely to the enthralled puppymamaness that is my life and make a little video. Enjoy:)Hope you had a beautiful Easter.

I've had quite a few puppies, but never one like this.Teddy, Sit.Our last three dogs, KD, Kayla and Gracie, came right from cages at the shelter, and all of them were pretty shell shocked from their time there. They had been crammed in with other dogs,...

The Christmas Eve when I was eleven, I desperately wanted the Barbie motorhome...the long yellow one with the shower and eating nook and super cool 70s decals. I stayed awake in bed, wishing and hoping to see it waiting for me when I came downstairs on...

Sitting in bed in my reading glasses and sweats, the house decidedly a mess, my suitcase not yet unpacked from my weekend away, no shower taken after my walk. I've decided that if I wait until I get everything done to write, I never get to it. We're th...

When I was a kid, we lived next door to my best friend. There was a house in between ours, technically, but because we all had big pastures out behind our houses, we could cut across the intervening property and go back and forth on our own, which we d...

There have been some enchanted dogs swooping into my life lately.First Lottie Mae. Enough said.Then, Daphne, a teensy chihuahua/pug mix puppy who caught my eye on an LA street. Turned out she was a rescue, from a very bad breeder, in need of a home. I ...

Reentry is difficult.Getting away briefly from my real life was beyond wonderful. Time to walk and shop and think and relax. Time to sleep in, to eat shrimp tacos on a sunny patio, to drink iced tea by the pool and take pictures of whatever grabbed my ...

The new Shape Magazine arrived in yesterday's mail, Jennifer Love Hewitt's bikini clad body in all it's airbrushed perfection on the cover. Grabbing it off of the sofa, Chloe started talking about the picture and how perfect the model's skin was. We ta...

I'm in the habit of watching each day for its best moment. Some days it can be a real challenge to find anything at all, but I make myself find something. On a difficult day I might look up and notice the blue of the sky, or an interesting reflection i...

This.This is what I long for, what I wait for all through the long months of November, December, January, through the fog and the rain, through the grey. Today, here she is, softly calling my name with the warm sunshine through my window at work, whisp...