There was something about the way Verity looked at me. She would tilt her head ever so slightly to one side, fix those gentle eyes upon mine, and hold them there with a knowing that seemed almost impossible to explain.

A Tribute to a Pony-Loving Goat Named Herb

Ohana means family. Family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten.

Twinkle Dot did not exactly burst into the world. Born in February of 2025, one of eight tiny piglets to rescued mumma Petunia, he was the smallest.

Today marks an entire lap around the sun without you. And although the sun shines no more for you, because of you it shines so brightly for so many.

There are some animals whose lives become so entwined with our own that it becomes difficult to remember a world before them. Polly was one of those animals.

Calvin Swine. Even his name makes you smile, and somehow that feels fitting, because he was that kind of pig.

I sit here beside my broken heart and try to write the story of Hansel. A task made tougher because it feels as though a piece of it has left with him.

I said those words twice today. The first time came when I dropped my head to Gwendolyn’s side, her chest no longer moving and her heart still, as mine went into overdrive. No, no, no. We weren’t expecting to lose her today. Not today.

Andrea Gibson once wrote: “Let your heart break so your spirit doesn’t”