In case you couldn’t tell from my recent posts and comments therein, I’ve been at a conference all weekend. It was a marathon for this busy girl, especially since my sister’s movie premiered in Miami on Friday night with a red carpet screening and the obligatory fancy party I couldn’t miss. By the time I got in my rental car on Saturday morning (at 6 AM) I was already exhausted.

After stopping...

No, it's not a foray into a bad joke. It's my life at the moment.

I'm on my signifiicant others' tenth-year vet school reuniuon cruise to Belize and Cozumel. It's the first time I've been out of the country in twelve years...and I'm loving every minute--except for the hours I've spent worrying about how I'd ever manage to post my blog entries.

Shortly after embarking, I was informed that...

In preparation for my weekly podcast feature, I’ve been playing around with all things multimedia. (Thank God for Macs!) As part of this new venture, I just uploaded my first video to YouTube.

It’s a milestone, I think. For someone whose siblings make a living out of filmmaking (production, direction, everything), I’ve been a little slow to embrace the medium. Maybe, just maybe, I’ve finally...

At the risk of driving unwanted traffic to Dolittler’s family friendly content, here’s a story from last week’s  McClatchy News Service (which is why it ended up in The Miami Herald, I guess). CAUTION: This material is not for younger or more sensitive readers:

A panhandle Floridian, currently serving jail time for an anachronous “livestock theft” offense (who serves time for that anymore?) was...

Microchipping pets is crucial in natural disaster-prone areas and for owners whose pets spend any amount of time unsupervised out of doors. For all others (all twelve of you left over) it’s merely ‘strongly recommended.’ That was before this week’s tragedy unfolded in the mountains of North Georgia.

Straight from the headlines comes Ella’s story. She’s the black Lab mix who made it down from...

No, it's not a foray into a bad joke. It's my life at the moment.

I'm on my signifiicant others' tenth-year vet school reuniuon cruise to Belize and Cozumel. It's the first time I've been out of the country in twelve years...and I'm loving every minute--except for the hours I've spent worrying about how I'd ever manage to post my blog entries.

Shortly after embarking, I was informed that...

Lizards were literally raining down in Miami this past week. Remember the toad rain scene from Magnolia? That’s what I pictured when I heard about this plague of [mostly] iguanas that fell upon our houses and in our yards when the temperatures dipped below freezing and the wind blew hard.

Our hospital saw one and we got calls about several more. Apparently we weren’t the only ones to get phone...

From the beginning it was inevitable that lawyers would descend upon the San Francisco Zoo in the wake of the Christmas Day mauling of three young men. Though evidence of tiger-baiting and intoxication is mounting (eyewitness reports, a shoe just inside the enclosure with blood nearby, a vodka bottle inside the victims' car), it’s also clear that Tatiana the Siberian tiger was able to escape...

Because we all seem to share something in common beyond the love of animals—namely, the desire to improve ourselves—I thought it would be appropriate to offer up some New Year’s resolutions to better the relationship between pet owners and vets.

To that end, here’s a great game we can play: I offer you some paired, client/vet resolutions and you respond in kind. Sorry if these harp on my...

OK, let’s say you’ve got some cash to give away. Maybe that’s neither you nor me (definitely not me) but someone out there’s got money better off spent on a tax deduction than on clearance-priced holiday do-dads at Macy’s (if that’s not the definition of money to burn I don’t know what is).

So here’s my list of worthy charities for those really needing to allocate good money to great...