Some days I’m not sure how she could still love me. She tells me she does and I have no reason not to believe it, but my muzzle has turned so gray and it takes me time...
Author: Jennifer Vanderau
When I was a kid, my brother, sister and I used to play what we called “store” with our junk drawers. We would haul out any of the stuff we wanted to “sell,” put a money figure...
Life really can be quite a roller coaster ride, can’t it? One minute, you hear a wonderful story that makes your heart swell and the next, you read something terrible. That can be especially true if you...
You know what’s incredibly frustrating? I mean, OK, yes, a list of the incredibly frustrating things in life could definitely go on and on. Perhaps I should have asked, you know one thing that’s incredibly frustrating? We...
I have been what I like to call a television aficionado for many, many decades. I enjoy a good evening spent in front of the old boob tube and have since I was young. When my siblings...
They will be heard. The brown-eyed, four-legged souls who have no voice of their own. The tail wags. The barks. The meows. The nibbles. The purrs. The kisses. They will be heard. Max, the 1-year-old Australian Shepherd...
We were tossed over a fence, my siblings and me. It was so scary. One minute someone was holding us and the next we were in the air. We didn’t know what to do. We didn’t know...
It began, as the story goes, on a random Wednesday. A husband and wife, both born and raised in Waynesboro, got ready for work. They kissed one another goodbye and said they would see each other in...
I’ve started to wonder recently if we might be humanizing our pets a little too much. Don’t get me wrong, humanizing animals is kind of what we’re all about at the Cumberland Valley Animal Shelter. We want...
The evening is dark and relatively balmy. It’s difficult to explain the chills you’ve been getting for the last few minutes as the group you’re with walks through the streets of Gettysburg on a ghost tour. Your...
