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Happy 2nd Birthday Tess, My Little Liar

Last Saturday, Tess celebrated her second birthday with cake and a party hat. She also gave me quite the surprise and made me spend a good chunk of money at the vet to make sure she was okay... Yay... rescues!

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11… Hopes for the New Year

I was hoping for an amazing start to the '20s. Instead a global pandemic arrived two months later, changing the social, economic, cultural, and all the other landscapes of the world. I have never been one for resolutions or goals, but I have hopes for 2021, and I will keep those in mind in the coming days and months.

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Visiting Vienna; Life After The Puppies Left Me

I got to visit Vienna last month. No, I didn't make it to Europe. My Vienna is in Iowa with my best friend. She's in one of eight perfect homes nine of my thirteen puppies found. They are living their best lives, and I couldn't be happier for them.

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Isolation Creation

My quarantine hasn't been filled with finding a new passion, getting in shape, writing the next great American novel, or baking sourdough bread. I haven't been able to be apart of #isolationcreation the way I wish I could've been. My version was raising the puppies.

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11… Joy Bringers

The world has gone to shit... Kidding. The world has always been shit becaus systemic racism is real and has always been real, but the world is finally starting to wake up to it. COVID is making the world a worse place, so I'm thinking about things that bring me joy tonight. Like carousels. I fucking love carousels. So. Damn. Much.