Pets have always been family members in my household and each was loved dearly. But the folks who equate human lives and animal lives are often completely out of touch. They stop seeing them as pets and this will blind them from doing right by them. I understand the impulse to drop several thousand dollars on cancer…

It’s hard for me to accept sleep experts orders to lock kids in their rooms because I vividly remember the sheer terror that experienced when I slept alone as a kid. I was a terrible sleeper until I was in my early teens and I can say this tough love approach would have destroyed me.