Pet Owner’s Independence Day: Get to Work Murphy, Kitty, and Tabby!

Today is Pet Owner’s Independence Day. There is not a lot of information about what this day is supposed to be about. What I could find said it was a day for pet owner’s to take off from work and send Fluffy and Fido in their place instead. Huh? Okay, the concept is to have a day off acting like your pet: lying around all day, napping, etc. A day of rest. That part sounds good, but what’s the point of having a designated day for something that’s completely ludicrous? What pet could realistically get to their person’s work on … Continue reading

Learning to Snuba

My almost 3-year-old daughter loves fish. I’ve taken her to various world-class aquariums, but we always leave with her asking for more. One person recently recommended I take her snorkeling. Yeah, right, this is a kid who screams if a single piece of her hair gets wet in the bathtub and you want me to submerge her entire face in water and ask her to breathe out of a tube while she’s at it? I’d have better luck trying to getting Don Imus his job back. The fact is I would love to have my daughter don a mask, snorkel, … Continue reading