Sep 26, 2022 | Chasing Unleashed
We just this weekend celebrated my granddaughter’s 5th birthday. I can’t even believe how fast time has passed. I vividly remember the day she was born and then meeting her for the first time the next day (which is today!) I’ve been incredibly fortunate to spend a...
Sep 19, 2022 | Chasing Unleashed
I was recently going through old pictures in an effort to find a better way to store all the pre-phone images taken dating back to the 1960s when I was a child. Barb and I had fun seeing “old” pictures of our daughters dating from 1988 through their high school years....
Sep 12, 2022 | Chasing Unleashed
My mother lived with Barb and me for two and a half years before moving to a memory care facility. We were caregivers for her in the middle of her battle with dementia. And it was a battle. Maybe the better way to say it is that there was daily a lot of “drama.” This...
Aug 29, 2022 | Chasing Unleashed
“C’mon Bella!!!” Well, it was something like that. I did say those words and may have sneaked in a few more spicy ones as I went to wash my hands of the red, sticky liquid medicine that was now all over me. Bella – whom you might remember eclipsed the great...
Aug 22, 2022 | Chasing Unleashed
I was terrified to look over the edge… Bella has never been the dog we worried about. It was always Captain Jack, the great escapist who’d have made Houdini proud. That changed last week. Bella sleeps in our room. As Barb has been away dealing with a family emergency,...
Aug 15, 2022 | Chasing Unleashed
This past week, I was a volunteer at the United States Womens Amateur golf championship held at Chambers Bay Golf Course near Tacoma. My role on Friday at the quarterfinals was as a forecaddie for one of the four groups. That meant I followed behind one group to stay...