Tag: Pets

  • The First Day

    The First Day

    Today you weren’t there in bed when I reached out to make sure I didn’t sit on you coming back from the bathroom. Today was the first day you didn’t get up with me in the wee hours when I couldn’t sleep. Today, I wept in the dark when I smelled you on the blanket…

  • Goodbye Parker

    Goodbye Parker

    Today, we said goodbye to our dog, Parker. He was 8. Cancer got him far too soon. We got a little dog thinking he would live longer than a larger one, since we lost our last dog early as well. Coincidentally, also to cancer. Life isn’t fair. Parker had so much attitude, but was also…