I already knew the answer. Even if my senior cat was a little slimmer than in his licking-the-bowl-clean heyday of yore, my long-torsoed, Bombay beauty was not going to fit under an airplane seat. "Guess we're road tripping it then," my less-than-enthusiastic husband sighed. The week of Christmas. I'd already made peace with spending the …
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I'm in rental home number three since relocating to Santa Fe a year ago. It wasn't supposed to be this way. But meeting a targeted move-in date when building a home is about as common as knowing where the light switch is upon first entering an Airbnb after dark. Yesterday the man and I rented …
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"You mean the cat gets his own bedroom?" my husband wanted to know. Um, yes. And you have to share it with him. Before you deem me a crazy cat lady (and childless..that part is true), I can explain... We aren't having marital problems. And he gets the night shift with me in the main …
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Two months into volunteering at Santa Fe Animal Shelter, I came home with a scruffy 18-pound mutt. I'll just foster him for a weekend, I thought. Give the little guy a shelter break. I mean..how could I not? The week prior to bringing him home, I'd walked him a few times, only to leave him …
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