Drunken Mushroom & Onion Pasta

Do you ever have one of those times – after a long day as you are driving home thinking about dinner, and even though you know there’s nothing in the fridge, you are too lazy to stop at the store? Today was not one of those days. I got home and I had plenty of […]

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World Lion Day 2015 – In Honor of Cecil

Today is World Lion Day and of course this year it’s more emotional and poignant than in others after the brutal death of Cecil the Lion. I was just in Zimbabwe this past March and some of my fellow volunteers visited Hwange National Park, which is where Cecil lived. Protected. They came home to the […]

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Waste not want not

Every night I fill Pooka’s Kong with peanut butter, freeze it overnight and give it to her when I leave the house. When I grab my keys it signals to her to run to the kitchen and stare at the freezer until I give her the kong. This is a creature of habit I’m dealing with. […]

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Meet The Pooka

Welcome to The Pooka posts! I am Pooka, a 9 1/2 year old terrier/pinscher rescue. I am adorable (as you can see here) therefore I do adorable things. Check back here for updates and flashbacks on my life as The Boss.

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Still dreaming about Iceland

Part 2 of 2 It’s been three weeks since Marc and I got back from Iceland yet we are still talking about it. It was that great of a trip. But don’t worry about me too much. I went to Costa Rica for five nights to try to drown my sorrows about a week after […]

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In the land of fire & ice. Otherwise known as Iceland.

Part 1 of 2 A few weeks ago, without either of us being able to recall how it really all came about, my boyfriend Marc and I started talking about a trip to Iceland. It’s a place I had always wanted to go (but where in this world do I not want to go?), primarily […]

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