“Go to Your Bed”

Last night I bought myself new summer sheets. 500 thread count cotton ones. Now the sheets are washed and placed on my bed and I can hardly wait until bedtime when I can crawl between them and see if my dreams improve.Long before I dared splurge (I did have a...

Applying Training to Real Life

Skills drills in dog training is practicing basic obedience with various levels of distractions and incorporating distance and duration. For example, training a dog to sit, down and stay while walking away a certain distance and then calling the dog to come and sit and down again. Perhaps the dog...

Structure – Garden Style

Structure can be literal and metaphorical. Something made out of parts -- like a crate or a teepee.Structure can refer to the day to day routine. If I build my teepee well enough and take proper care of the structure, within a few weeks it should start becoming something more...