CCI

I had a really funny/awesome encounter with an adorable little girl and her mommy while cruising around the grocery store with Caleb yesterday.  The kid was in the driver’s seat, sitting in the bottom of one of those race car like grocery carts (what did I say… KIDS LOVE RACE Read More

Tune in to the 10 AM Sesame Street Episode, “Brandeis is Looking for a Job” about service dogs this morning!  One of Caleb’s CCI classmates and best buds will be showing the furry stuffed animals how it’s done. Here’s a little sneak peek of the song “Life as a Servi Read More

Let me preface this blog entry by saying I’m not hugely comfortable about posting it, but feel strongly that I should, so here goes. I’ve always tried to keep my blog completely positive and only about the great things in life, but truth be known, that isn’t how it Read More

It’s Christmas card time! Funny thing, a few years ago I used to think what a pain in the butt it was to send out Christmas cards. I would keep putting it off and off, until eventually they became New Year’s cards or even later. A few years ago something changed and I Read More

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Canine Companions for Independence sends out a quarterly newsletter about their great organization, the graduates, puppy raisers, and everything wonderful going on with their wonderful service dogs. Yours truly and Caleb the Super Dog made it on the front page with this article: Read More

Looks like me and Caleb found our way onto the Internet in video form in a recent article published by the Patchogue Patch. Check it out in its entirety at: http://patchogue.patch.com/articles/video-dogs-graduate-from-medford-school Or Jump Right to the Video Read More

And Part Two of my CCI Team Training Experience. Took me a little bit longer to get writing this than I had planned/expected, but I had lots of catching up to life to do, and a couple extraordinarily sunny days to enjoy with Caleb like this one. And graduation! What will I Read More

Howdy friends everywhere… literally everywhere! What an overwhelming response from my last blog entry!  Geesh! This one sure has spread like wildfire and Itoday I received the most hits of my blog’s history. You CCI folk sure know how to get the word out :-). Thank you for Read More

Hey folks! I’m back in Northern Maine and with a new best friend! Let me tell you about the whole Canine Companions for Independence team training experience. In just a few words… absolutely wonderful, emotionally exhausting, super rigorous, inner peace inspiring, and heart Read More