Chicken Soup for the Dog Lover's Soul (42 page)

Anne Carter,
a native New Yorker and freelance writer, dedicates this story to all her amazing animals—Buster, Huckleberry, Princess, Penny, Sandra Dee, Tina and Peaches. She sends her love to Lucille McHugh—the animal kingdom’s true champion. Anne’s inspirational stories have appeared in major publications. Contact Anne at:
[email protected]
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When
Carol Chapman
switched careers, she soon found herself on one of those roads less traveled. Arriving in Texas, she bought a ranch and created The Last Refuge, a sanctuary for unwanted dogs, cats and horses. She writes animal essays and inspirational life pieces. Please e-mail her at:
[email protected]
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Meg Charendoff
lives with her husband, four kids, two cats and her dog, D’Argo, in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania. An at-home mom and freelance writer, Meg is currently working on a novel and a collection of essays. Please e-mail her at:
[email protected]
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Jennifer Coates
graduated from the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine as valedictorian in 1999 and has practiced small animal medicine ever since. She lives with her husband, dogs, cats and horses in western Wyoming and is currently writing a veterinary dictionary for animal owners. Please contact her at:
[email protected]
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After a twenty-four-year career in newspapers, magazines, television and radio,
Sherry Cremona-Van Der Elst
received her Le Cordon Bleu Culinary Arts degree and is now a professional chef. She and her husband, Marcel, are planning to open a bed-and-breakfast in South Haven, Michigan. Please email her at:
[email protected]
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Margaret P. Cunningham’s
short stories have placed in several national contests. Her stories have appeared in the anthologies,
Hello, Goodbye
and
Gardening at a Deeper Level.
She lives in Mobile, Alabama, with her husband, Tom. Margaret enjoys reading, writing and spending time at the beach with her children and granddaughters.

AtreyeeDay
is a double graduate in English (Honors) from Jadavpur University, Calcutta, and painting from M.S. University of Baroda, India. She stays in her rambling old family house in Calcutta. A poet and educator, she plans to travel extensively and write inspirational, travel and children’s books. Her e-mail is
[email protected]
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Pennie DeBoard
is a registered nurse who works for the Red Cross. She lives with her husband in an old farmhouse on five acres in Oregon. Pennie enjoys spending time with her granddaughter, gardening organically, riding her Harley motorcycle and perfecting “fast Frisbee” with Josie. Reach her at:
[email protected]
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Gayle Delhagen
is a certified equine sports massage therapist who lives with her family in northern Virginia. Gayle enjoys spending time with her family and her quarter horse, Handy. She plans on operating a farm for retired and rescued horses. Please e-mail her at:
[email protected]
.

Tekla Dennison Miller
(
www.teklamiller.com
), author of the novel
Life Sentences
and two memoirs,
The Warden Wore Pink
and
A Bowl of Cherries,
taught in riot-torn south central Los Angeles and worked withmentally-challenged enlisted men in Germany. She, her husband and three golden retrievers live in Colorado.

Lisa Duffy-Korpics
is a freelance writer and global history teacher at Valley Central High School in Montgomery, New York. Her stories have also appeared in
Chicken Soup for the Cat & Dog Lover’s Soul
and
Chicken Soup for the
Mother’s Soul 2.
Lisa lives in Dutchess County, New York, with her husband, Jason, son, Charles, and daughter, Emmaleigh.

Ed Eames, Ph.D.
and his wife, Toni Eames, M.S., live with golden retriever guide dogs, Keebler and Latrell, and four cats. They are board members of the International Association of Assistance Dog Partners. As authors, lecturers and advocates, they claim their careers have gone to the dogs! Contact them at 559-224-0544; or via e-mail:
[email protected]
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Blinded in a Nazi concentration camp,
Max Edelman
arrived in America with his wife in 1951. They worked and raised two sons and have five grandchildren. Now eighty-two years old, he writes and does public speaking on the subjects of the Holocaust and blindness. He is also a volunteer for the blind.

John Fenzel, Jr.
is a Chrysler-Jeep-Dodge dealer in Hampshire, Illinois. He and his wife, Muriel, have four children. Their youngest boy, Michael, who sent Bashur to America, is currently a lieutenant colonel based in Afghanistan. The whole Fenzel family enjoys hiking, skiing and traveling.

Psychologist/Professor
Dr. Aubrey Fine
is an internationally known expert in the field of Animal Assisted Therapy. He is presently completing his new book titled
Afternoons with Puppy: A Therapist, His Animals and Life Lessons.
His life has been blessed with a wonderful family, which includes four dogs named Shrimp, Hart, PJ and Magic. Please e-mail him at:
[email protected]
.

Susanne Fogle
has written a weekly newspaper column about animals for the past six years. She has recently completed a book, tentatively titled
Animal
Tails: A Guide to Loving, Respecting and Coping with the Animals in Our Lives.
You can e-mail her at:
[email protected]
.

Elisabeth Ann Freeman
is an award-winning writer and speaker. She resides in Michigan with her husband, John, and four children. She attends Mount Hope Church in Ovid and serves in youth ministry. She has two books and over eighty articles/stories published. Please e-mail her at:
writeforlife@
charter.net
or log on to her Web site:
http://writeforlife.com
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Randy Glasbergen
began his professional cartooning career at age fifteen and began freelancing full-time after a year of journalism studies in Utica, New York. Aside from one year spent as a staff humor writer at Hallmark Cards in Kansas City, he has been a full-time freelance cartoonist since 1976. Randy lives in a small town in northeastern USA with his family and several dogs and cats. He enjoys working at home in a cluttered studio that occupies the third story of his creaky old Victorian house.

Paula Gramlich
has a master’s degree in reading and special education. She writes a column about special education issues for StormWatch. Paula is now writing a children’s book. You can e-mail her at:
[email protected]
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Wendy Greenley
adopted her dogs from Twyla’s Friends in Kingwood, Texas. Wendy graduated from the University of Delaware and Villanova University Law School. She is a member of the SCBWI and recently completed her first middle-grade novel. She lives outside Philadelphia with her husband, Dave, and two sons. Contact her at:
[email protected]
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Jonny Hawkins
’s cartoons have been in over three hundred publications. His recent books are
Wild and Wacky Animal Cartoons for Kids, A Tackle Box of Fishing
Funnies, Laughter from the Pearly Gates
and
Medical Cartoon-A-Day
and
Fishing
Cartoon-A-Day
calendars that come out annually. He can be reached at
jonny
[email protected]
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Christine Henderson
lives in Minnesota with her husband, their three children and two Brittanys. She recently became a stay-at-home mom and works as a freelance writer in her spare time.

Margaret C. Hevel
is a freelance author inmagazines such as
Western Horseman,
Bend of the River
and
Miniature Horse Voice.
She has also been featured in the books
Horse Tales for the Soul, Changing Course
and
Dog Tales for the Soul.
Her current nonfiction book, coauthored with a daughter, is
Parenting with Pets: The
Magic of Raising Children with Animals.

Mary K. Himens
has been a Servant of the Holy Heart of Mary serving in various fields of education and ministry. In private practice as a psychotherapist, she has published poetry,
Images: Sights and Insights,
and is working on a collection tentatively titled
Listening with the Ear of the Heart.

JeanHouston
is awriter, scholar and researcher in human capacities and is the creator and leader of the twenty-year-old mythic studies workshop, Mystery School. Her books include
A Mythic Life
and
The Possible Human.
She lives in Ashland, Oregon.

Susan Huether
battled breast cancer and survived. Getting another chance at life, Susan joined a small group named Wolfspirits Rescue who help give puppy mill survivors a new life. She lives modestly with her husband and eight dogs alongwith foster dogs and believes that each day is a gift fromGod.

Gary Ingraham
is an award-winning documentary producer/director for Cornell University’s Educational Television Center. He enjoys playing blues guitar, watching movies with wife, Patricia, and hanging out with their adopted dogs, Exley and Dobie Gillis. Gary is currently outlining a suspense novel. E-mail him at:
[email protected]
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Leigh Anne Jasheway-Bryant
’s writing is regularly carried in
Family Circle
and other national magazines. She won the 2003 Erma Bombeck Award for Humor Writing and has eleven published books including
Bedtime Stories for Dogs
and
If I Was a Dog, I’d Be a Better Person.
Her Web site is:
www.accidentalcomic.com
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Pamela Jenkins
lives in Henryetta, Oklahoma, with her husband and their four children. She is the office manager of her husband’s veterinary practice and enjoys writing about the bond between people and their pets. E-mail her at:
[email protected]
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Wendy Kaminsky
is a software analyst at Dominion Virginia Power. Wendy enjoys traveling, running and working with animals. She and her husband, Dennis, volunteer at a local animal shelter. Through their rescue efforts they have adopted three dogs and two cats who are loved and spoiled beyond words.

Bill King
has been an animal control officer for twelve years. Bill enjoys the outdoors, travel and his career. When you’re looking for your new pet, consider your local animal shelter.

Roger Dean Kiser
’s stories have been published in seventeen books in five countries. Roger will never forget he was treated as though he was less than human while living in a Jacksonville, Florida, orphanage. Roger’s story can be found at:
www.geocities.com/trampolineone/survive
/
noframe.htm
. Contact Roger at:
[email protected]
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Mary Klitz
resides in Michigan with an abundance of animals. She learned early of the dynamic relationship between people and pets. As the story in this book unfolded, she learned late in life the existence of another connection. The sender of blessings will also be a receiver. Mary has secretly longed to be a writer. This is her first published story.

Edward H. Kostro
’s nonfiction animal book,
Curious Creatures—WondrousWaifs:
My Life with Animals,
available through
Amazon.com
and
Barnes &
Noble.com,
depicts Ed’s fifty-year love affair with all creatures—great and small. It was awarded a Certificate of Excellence in the 2004 International Cat Writers’ Association Communications Contest.

Joyce Laird
has been an industrial journalist since 1984. She has recently expanded her writing into the areas of fiction and creative nonfiction essays. Some of her work has been published in
Woman’s World
magazine. Please e-mail her at:
[email protected]
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Mariana Levine
is a theatrical writer/director/choreographer and producer of Broadway-style musicals. She moved from Hollywood to Nashville where she founded Academy Center and Dance Academy of the South, emphasizing children’s studies, and developed shows for Opryland USA and Ringling’s Circus. An avid gardener, she paints and writes about country wildlife.

Elizabeth Lombard:
wife, mother of five and fifth-generation south Boston resident. Animal lover actively committed to animal welfare. Stargazer, vegetarian, writer. Contributing author to the
South Boston Literary Gazette.

Marjie Lyvers
is amother of four children, nine grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. Her life story includes twenty-five years as a military wife, numerous adventures and travels, retiring in her hometown of Spokane, Washington. After the death of her husband, Marjie has filled her time with writing and crafts.

Laurie MacKillip
currently lives in Florida and can be found on her motorcycle, at the beach, or spending time with family and friends when she can find time between work, training horses and writing.

Alexandra Mandis
was born in Zimbabwe in 1958 and moved to the United States in 1983. Dogs are her passion and in particular her blue-eyed Dalmatian, Harry, and her two Great Danes, Elsa and Blue. She is working in New Zealand, with her work base in the United States, as an IT program manager. She also loves horses, books and the country life.

Shannon McCarty
is a writer and humorist from Austin, Texas. She has three young children, a dog, three mice and numerous fish in her home. She enjoys playing soccer and writing about family life. Please e-mail her at:
smccarty@
austin.rr.com
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