It appears, if you’re a dude who drinks craft beer, you’re destined to have a beard. You might as well embrace it and work on stroking your chin as you sample hoppy goodness. You will begin to engage in line waiting oneupmanship! Hearing someone say “Well, I drove 100 miles to blablabida brewery and had to wait in line for five hours before I got my growler filled,” and finding yourself nodding with enthusiasm and replying with your own tale of line waiting woes somehow seem

As I notice so many fellow bloggers posting travel photos as they begin making their way to Phoenix for BlogPaws, I wanted to make a quick follow-up post to my travel checklist. So many times, while traveling, the one thing that seems to be left behind is common sense. As a veteran traveler for my other job in college admissions, I think it’s important to remind everyone of some items. If you wouldn’t do it at home, don’t do it while you’re away. Sounds simple, right? Here

Hello fine furry friends! This is a drive by post as we are preparing for our upcoming trip to BlogPaws next week. I don't know about you, but I always rely on making lists and checking things off as I pack for trips. I thought it would be nice to post a checklist that I recently made that includes items for humans and their pets as they prepare for trips. It's not beautiful, but it's pretty thorough. You can download it as a PDF to print for your own use. If you want

“Wouldn’t it be great to have two dogs?” my husband and I kept asking. We would daydream about how joyous our house would be with a second pup as a part of the family. Mental pictures of snuggling with a dog on each side of me while I drank hot cocoa and smiled blissfully in the distance floated in my head. I imagined hours of fun play that Bean and our imaginary pup would engage in as they lilted around the house, romping but nary breaking a single piece of furniture. It

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It happens every award show season. Someone trips while wearing their fancy dress, someone shows just a bit too much skin, winners take too long with their acceptance speech and are kicked off stage with a crescendo boost of music, and at least one person says “it’s just an honor being a finalist, it doesn’t matter if I win,” as they bat their eyelashes and smile for the camera. It’s almost a cliché, at this point, for finalists to make that statement. That isn’t the case