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• Never Too Old To Fall In Love

  By carrieroe on August 14, 2020 • ( 5 )

  “We’re going to grow old whether we have a dog or not” were the wise words of my dear friend Bob Goldenberg when I introduced him and his wife, Peggy to my foster dog Darcy. I had taken Darcy to… Read More ›

• Just a dog

  By carrieroe on January 15, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  To those who know me well, please suspend disbelief when I say how thankful I am for the woman who shared this comment in response on my recent post about the dog Gwen. “I’m sorry but this is just a… Read More ›

• Changing the course of the stream

  By carrieroe on January 18, 2018 • ( 2 )

  The other day I saw a post from a friend that was so familiar and yet so strange. Familiar as I could have written the words. Probably not as kindly but the sentiment was my own. Strange as the writer… Read More ›

• All animal lives should matter

  By carrieroe on December 30, 2017 • ( 3 )

  My retirement in June after more than 33 years working for the Federal Government was not the least bit scary because I knew exactly what I was going to do. Or at least I thought I did. And it wasn’t… Read More ›

• I took his dog

  By carrieroe on June 18, 2017 • ( 7 )

  

  Tim Frazier was a total stranger to me when it started.  And while I’d never know him well, I would learn where he lived, how he lived, who his best friend was, that he had cancer and not for the… Read More ›

• A dog named Nitro

  By carrieroe on March 17, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  I will begin this story with the cold hard truth.  My foster dog Nitro is unadoptable.  Or at least by many standards and statistics in the animal sheltering world, he should be deemed as such.  In fact, I am sure… Read More ›

• Yes, I can try!

  By carrieroe on March 10, 2017 • ( 3 )

  

  This puppy, named Rebel was hit by a car today and has not one but two broken legs!!  Sound familiar?  And he needs our help.  Sounds too familiar doesn’t it?  Is it his fault that his owners can’t afford his… Read More ›

• Love at First Sight

  By carrieroe on November 24, 2016

  

  I’ve been called an old soul so I guess it was not surprising that we got along. She was kinda like me. We both had baggage and we both didn’t care.

• Does she look like a Lucy?

  By carrieroe on October 8, 2016 • ( 6 )

  

  Having struggled to find my voice lately or at least a voice that was positive in nature, I sort of quit writing for a bit.  Well that’s not actually true.  I was writing.  I just quit sharing my writing.  Most… Read More ›

• Elvis has left the building

  By carrieroe on August 8, 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  Never has the phrase “Elvis has left the building” meant more then it does today.   Not because I wasn’t an Elvis Presley fan.  I was!  But because in all other previous uses, that phrase meant the end of something.  Today… Read More ›