The Shadowdance Blog…
sometimes humorous, sometimes sad, occasionally irreverent, mostly honest.
A collection of ramblings on my life with working dogs, livestock, and a creative brain.
“And so I write. I write my life. I write to escape real life. I write to live moments over again. I write to rewrite the moments I’ve lived over in a way that makes more sense to me. I write the moments to heal. I write the moments I hope never happen. And I write the moments I hope will happen.”
― R.B. O'Brien
Time for the Self
Writing is my therapy… I took some time off over Labor Day weekend to spend on me and it proved to be a wise…
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Updates All Around
Isn’t it the way of things? You prepare to your utmost, follow all the steps or guidelines to a tee to ensure a smooth go,…
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Finn & the Big Sea
Okay, it was actually the big lake they call kitchi-gami, but likely as close to the sea as Finn will get and his biggest adventure thus…
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Believing to be More
A friend sent me the above text in a conversation regarding how Dillon had done at our most recent trial. Up until then, as seems…
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Another Farewell
As usual, this isn’t the post I wanted to write. I started it earlier today when I was still merely contemplating making the call for…
Read MoreLambs & More
The current Covid situation means I’m home full-time for lambing for the first time ever. That’s one of a couple silver linings. There are also…
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Dancing in the Rain
You would think this forced quarantine would give me more time to write and more to write about. Turns out, when I have a lot…
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A Dog’s Eye View
When I ran agility (which, for those wondering, was eons ago), one of the things we did while walking the course was to squat down…
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Shaking it off…
I realized it’s been quite a few weeks since I last posted anything. I’ve been meaning to, I just haven’t had the energy or the…
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