Books Defy COVID

Summer has settled in around us, and most of us are not on the beach with our books this year. However, a book can certainly be a welcome respite from these stultifying weeks of COVID shutdown. Nothing can take you further out of your own world than a book—or more deeply into an unexplored part…

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Metal Plates & Aging Gracefully

Two years ago, my youngest Dalmatian, Mac, broke his leg in three places while colliding with his older brother as they jumped high to compete for a ball. He had a twelve inch metal plate and twenty screws implanted to save it from amputation. You can still see the bumps under his skin and it…

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