An Ongoing Tale

My boss agreed to let me file for unemployment to supplement my income while I looked for a new full-time position. I would go into the...

I worked at the Depuy Canal House for 2 1/2 years, finally deciding there was no room for growth or promotion. I did so love that job, it...

I often get asked how I keep all of my inventory straight; lucky for me one of my strong suits is organization. I hope I don’t jinx...

A lot sure has changed from back when I first started selling dolls, and doll clothes and accessories on eBay. Of course, back then I...

As the dolls came to me to be sold the temptation was often great to offer to buy one out-right to keep for my own. There were so many...

“How many of these dolls did you say you have?” Wow… who knew! I don’t recall the exact amount but that handful of dolls and outfits put...

A couple of weeks pass and I find myself armed with about a dozen dolls and a page of handwritten notes explaining who the dolls are,...

I had been living in my apartment for about a year, I was good and settled and had everything in its place. I had a box of miscellaneous...

The following summer, 2006, my little hamlet of High Falls organized it’s very first annual pet show contest that would be a part of the...

It was the fall of 2005, I was settled into my new apartment and feeling like it was time to introduce a new cat into my life. I called...

After about six months of living with the friend that I had moved in with when I moved to New York State, I decide it was in my best...

I arrived in New York State on February 14, 2004. I moved in with a friend who lived in a blink-and-you-miss-it town called Olivebridge...

I arrived at my mom’s house in West Virginia to spend the weekend, I would be moving to New York soon so this was our last time spent...

It was February 8, 2004, right before my move to New York, that I made a road trip to go visit my mom and my sister in West Virginia. I...

​I made several trips to New York before moving there, checking the area out and trying to decide whether I wanted to live there or not....

Benji was the spitting image of Max, right down to the adorably rotten personality. I truly believed that he was the reincarnation of Max...

The following year a new fur baby came into my life. One of my husband's employees took the kitten from a young girl at a convenience...

WARNING! - IF YOU ARE OF A SENSITIVE NATURE, THIS INSTALLMENT DEALS WITH THE TRAGIC DEATH OF A PET. ​Max came first. He was, what I...

My husband and I never had any children, once we decided it was “that time” and after several attempts at becoming pregnant, we went...

My husband refused to fly in an airplane; he never had and refused to consider it. So our journeys were limited to discovering only those...