About Carmen

Storyteller, Coconut’s Mom, Reluctant Gardener at Wag Away Publishing and Publisher of the Wag Away Tales Series at Wag Away Publishing

Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day

By |2024-12-08T09:11:48-06:00December 8, 2024|

Today is National Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day. What time would you travel to in your own life or in history? Hands down I'd travel back to June 15, 2016 and leave the beach five minutes later than we did that day. Or we could have taken a different route home. Had we done either of those things we would not have [...]

Never Forget

By |2024-12-08T09:16:02-06:00December 7, 2024|

I post this same thing every December 7th because it really sums it up for me. I lived in Hawaii for about 25 years and Pearl Harbor was something that was part of the fabric of my life. I lived in Hawaii long enough to have met many Pearl Harbor survivors. It was such an honor to shake their hands, listen to their stories, [...]

He Chose Me

By |2024-11-27T09:45:19-06:00November 27, 2024|

Aren't dogs the best? A memory popped this morning on my personal Facebook feed from 2017. This would have been only six weeks after we adopted Coconut and I forgot all about this incident. I was rushing upstairs in my bedroom slippers and tripped up the steps. In my defense, that was the first and last year I actually had slippers. They seemed the [...]

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