Category Archives: Family

Healing Walks with Max

Max must know he’s good-looking.  Whenever we walk along Benicia’s First Street someone inevitably says, “What a beautiful dog.” Max gives admirers his goofy grin and wags his enormous tail. He didn’t look so handsome when he came to me as a foster dog last year through the Northern California Golden Retriever Rescue Association. The…

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Catching Time

The Pacific Salmon Charter sign glowed red and bright. “Let’s go fishing!” said my son Ben. We spotted the sign as we walked the docks at the Ilwaco marina on the Washington coast, catching up with each other, with time. Two years had gone by since we had fished together. My son learned to fish…

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