There are seasons in life when simply getting through the day feels like enough. The past several months have certainly felt that way for my family. Between back-to-back health issues, medical appointments, unexpected tests, and the heartbreaking loss of Teddy, life has demanded a great deal of attention and energy. While I have been focused […]
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Emergency alerts on your phone are unsettling. Your mind quickly starts asking: What would I take?How much time would we have?Did I remember the pets?Where are the medications?Do the flashlights still work? Living in California means many of us have learned to keep one eye on the weather during certain times of the year. Wind
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Every morning, before breakfast and before Mom even finishes her coffee, I begin my backyard security patrol. This is a very important job because our backyard has squirrels. Suspicious squirrels. Some people think squirrels are just fluffy little creatures that run around collecting nuts and flicking their tails. Those people are not trained investigators like I
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There are moments in life that stay frozen in your memory forever, and I want to share this one today, because it’s Endangered Species Day. As I just said, some memories stay frozen forever, not because they were peaceful or beautiful. However, this one began that way, but suddenly, in a matter of seconds, the quiet
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Every year on the third Friday in May, people around the world observe Endangered Species Day. In 2026, that day falls on May 15. It is not a celebration in the traditional sense. It is more of a pause. A moment to look honestly at the animals quietly disappearing from the Earth and ask ourselves
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Mother’s Day arrives each spring with flowers, cards, restaurant reservations, and heartfelt social media posts. For one day, we pause and collectively say, “Thank you, Mom.” And we should. Mothers shape our lives in ways we often do not fully understand until much later. Sometimes, not until we are adults ourselves. Sometimes not until they
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Hi friends, it’s me, Bear. Mom says I’m not technically a baby anymore because I’m getting bigger and stronger every day. But I still think I’m her baby, and honestly, I think she agrees. She still calls me “Baby Bear” in a soft voice, so I know I’m right. Today I had a very important
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Sometimes the sweetest moments arrive completely unannounced. I originally installed cameras around our backyard to photograph nighttime visitors. Over the years, they have captured raccoons, possums, skunks, wandering cats, Gray Foxes, and all sorts of unexpected guests moving quietly through the dark. But recently, one of my daytime cameras surprised me with something entirely different.
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Hi, it’s me.Mom’s Baby Bear. Yesterday was a hard day, not for me exactly, but for my best friend, Summer. I could tell something wasn’t right before anyone even said it out loud. Dogs know things like that. Her ears were different. Not her ears themselves, but how she held them. Lower. Quieter. Like she didn’t feel
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There are days when the world feels loud, even when everything around us is still. Not loud in noise, but in expectation. The quiet pressure to do something productive, something meaningful, something that proves the day was well spent. We carry that with us more than we realize. It sits just beneath the surface, whispering
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