a single Seattle dyke exploring parenting, dog training, being gluten free, and more.

Today my sweet girl Cassie turns three! She’s a great dog and, as I’ve written on here recently, she and I have developed a closer bond over the past year or so, which has been wonderful. Happy birthday, girl.
Posted: November 3rd, 2008 under Cassie.
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A bit late, but here are some photos from Pride last weekend. I went to many of the events and loved it. Last year I skipped most of them because of my parents’ Conservative Cruise got into Seattle the same weekend. (Yes, you read that right. People from Fox News and [...]
Posted: July 3rd, 2008 under Cassie, LGBTQ community, friends, seattle.
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For most of the 2 years that Cassie has been part of the family, she has been a dog dog (as opposed to a people dog, like Zoe. That is, Cassie used to be ambivalent about people but adore other dogs, whereas Zoe was the opposite). Over the past few months, though, Cass and I [...]
Posted: July 3rd, 2008 under Cassie.
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Sorry for the lack of posts for the past week. Its been a pretty busy week between school and life in general.
I had friends over for a BBQ on Monday - it was a random mix of people but everyone seemed to have fun. The weather turned out to be nice (they were threatening [...]
Posted: May 30th, 2008 under Cassie, Zoe, friends, house projects.
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Yesterday I caught Cassie happily chewing on a bar of soap. Yes, you read that right, soap. Isn’t soap sometimes used as a punishment by parents (not that I endorse this approach)? This was aloe soap, but still. Ugh.
Posted: May 16th, 2008 under Cassie.
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Yesterday I did my first round of inseminations. All things considered, they went pretty well. Some friends had really hilarious stories about their first times, but mine went off pretty smoothly … except for the dogs.
For the uninitiated, the sperm comes in a small vile stored in a large tank of liquid nitrogen. [...]
Posted: May 9th, 2008 under Cassie, TTC, TTC misadventures, alternative insemination, insemination attempts, sperm.
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You may know that the dog training community is currently divided into two main factions: “traditional” trainers who follow what is known as pack theory and positive or clicker trainers whose methods are based on animal learning theory. I am proud to fall into the second group, though I’ll leave the critiques of pack [...]
Posted: April 10th, 2008 under Cassie, dog training.
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