Archive for January 2022

There is a growing movement among businesses to introduce wellness programs into their work environment.  It’s a response by employers to help reduce stress in the workplace, stress that can lead to reduced productivity and even loss of an employee.   Programs such as yoga, meditation, exercise, nutritional advice, help for addiction….. all directed toward improving…

My lifework as a veterinarian has been rewarded many times over with interesting stories of pets becoming “members of the family”, forever altering the traditional meaning of siblings.  Many of these stories are about the curious ways pets help their human partners through difficult times—like this pandemic.  Because of a shared bond, the human-animal bond,…

Years ago, when Bailee, my Springer spaniel and Shilo, a yellow Lab were still alive, we took evening walks together in the woods near my home in Colbert.  They were my constant companions, anxiously waiting my return from a long day’s work at my veterinary hospital. The memory is as vivid as if it happened…