It’s been about 8 months since our Jack Russell Terrier, Lucy, passed away. She was the only dog our family ever had known and her loss touched us very deeply. We had been thinking about getting a new dog not to replace Lucy but to help fill some of the emptiness in our hearts. We spent many hours debating whether to go to the pet store and get another pure breed or to go to a shelter and…

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Fifteen years ago I was invited to be a presenter at Niguel Hills Middle School’s 8th grade “Career Day”.  My oldest child was in Kindergarten (he is now a sophomore in college) and my youngest child had not yet been born. My only knowledge about 8th graders was what I remembered from my youth. And from what I remembered there were a lot of subtleties that most grownups, no matter how hard…

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