A pretty good friend, and a pretty good dog

Her name’s Sabrena and she’s been wanting me to mention her in a column, so here it is.
Actually, Sabrena is a pretty good friend, and pretty good friends are sometimes difficult to come by. I met her and the guy who became her husband when I was doing a story about the first anniversary of [...]

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Of summer, and a four-legged kid

Sing along with me: The hills are alive, with the vines of eye-vee.
My first little bubble of the summer showed up last night. I probably got it from Grady.
Grady is the Golden Retriever who has lived here a little more than three months. He was a Rescue dog, but you’d never know there’d been a [...]

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Preserve neighborliness

I love technology. My first cell phone was an office-sized contraption that fit in a bag resting on the passenger seat — in the passenger’s lap if I was trying to qualify for the HOV lane — which was about three hours drive from where I lived and worked.
Cell phones were something of a novelty. [...]

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