Kyoko's Blog (43)

Hello, all!! I have not been here for over a year!! I joined DK over 7 years ago when I first began looking for a doodle. Through the support and education I received here, we welcomed our F1b Labradoodle Charlie girl February of 2009. Charlie turned out to be a bit different girl who educated me through her intuitive and eccentric life. DK community was there to…

So, it was only like 30 degree, but…

We had this huge summit in November to discuss about suburban poverty and homelessness here in Pittsburgh. Local major news paper wrote the article, and NPR had segment in regard to this summit.

A group of local YMCA staff read this article and listen to the NPR, and was absolutely shocked to know the numbers of homeless families we have in our school district.…

http://wesa.fm/post/challenges-suburban-homelessness-and-education

I wrote a blog sometime ago ( I guess in June ) in regard to students who graduated despite of significant difficulties they faced from my school district. One of them recently received resiliency award here in Pittsburgh, also recieved National Scholarship for students experiencing homelessness. There were 15 students nation wide…

I had this posted on the discussion, but it appears to be expiring, so I thought I will post it here as well..

This is a photo contest for Sealy dog bed. I never entered anything like this, but this contest's winner will recieve Sealy dog bed and Dog pacer tredmill. Since Charlie girl is trying to recover from her hip injury, I thought they will be perfect for her so that she can rest and do physical therapy!!…

Some of you may already know that Charlie has been a very reactive girl ever since she was a little puppy. We had gone through years of obedience training with her but she continue to be very fearful and reactive towards anyone, anything and any dogs she does not know what or who it is.

She had an injury in the beginning of the summer, and I began taking her to this holistic vet about an hour away for this injury. The doctor was wonderful, and we began discussing about her…

I visited my friend for few days, and I had such great time with her pitbull, Shintaro.

While I mised my dogs, time with Shintaro was priceless!! I had captured some of his wonderful expressions of our affair..... He was sooo happy at East River Park....…

Lynda ( Lynda Kamrath, Groucho and Harpo's mom )came to Pittsburgh for her family reunion!! I had a pleasure of meeting with her today!!

I had wonderful conversation with her in regard to her involvement with school children and gardening, and the passion for Art!!! I work for the public school, and I love various art ( used to work as a textile designer in NYC ), so the conversation was great!! She shared her books she made of her late doodle Hondo, family and current doodles Groucho…

 I am so over joyed today.

Some of you may know, but I work as a school social worker at local public school. Part of my job is to assist homeless students with transportation and other school needs to ensure their success in school. I also work as a mental health therapist for kids some of  the evenings as my second job.

Today was overwhelmingly joyful day for me to hear two wonderful news. I thought these two seniors are really, true valedictorians in my eyes. They over came…

This winter has been really nice and mild so far. Here in Pittsburgh, usually by now, we would had several inches of snow and freezing cold weather. I hate cold weather, so this has been perfect for me. However, Charlie LOVES to play in snow. Too bad for her..... Well, Today I found out that local county park's ski slope has been doing the test shoot of the fake snow. So, during our regular walk, we took a detour to go look at this test shoot. There were several large patches of snow, each…

My daughter sent me this link. Of course I liked the Panda Chow!! I thought they were cute, But kinda silly... I just wanted to share.

I work for the local public school and one of my duties is to assign homebound teachers for the students who cannot attend school temporary due to illness, injury, etc... This afternoon, I had conversation with one of the homebound teachers and this is what he told me.....

He told me that the little girl whom I assigned him to recently told him that her house was haunted. She told him that her mom bought this house on sheriff's sale a couple of years ago. She said that she sees ghost…

I just wanted to share our memories with you...

http://smilebox.com/playBlog/4d6a59304f4459324f54513d0d0a&blogview=true

Ok, I am so mad. Here's what's going on....

1) I have been growing Charlie's legs' fur for quite sometime now. Some of you may know, but she has shaved face, short cut body and long fur on the legs. I just think it is cute on her. But because of matting, getting wet in the water, etc... I have not been able to grow her legs' fur as long as I wanted them to be, until recently. I have been combing, ( I found the comb that works really wel and Charlie does not mind this comb ) faithfully…

Every child starts with beautiful mind and pure imaginations. And then something happens as they get older.....

We can all be a special someone who nutrue one's innocence and growth to a child.....

Today, my little girl client wanted to go see the puppies. OK, so off we went to Petland near her house. We walked in, and went toward the puppy glass cages, and there were something different about them..... Yes, all of the cages were filled with dogs/puppies.....But.... All of the dogs and puppies in the cages were from 3 ~4 different local shelters!!!! Each puppies/dog had a tag showing which shelter he/she belonged to and few descriptions of them. They also indicated informations in…

I worked ( In a process of quitting this job ) as a chemical dependency therapist for the people in a halfway house, probation or pre-trial, with drug and alcohol dependency. I was a bit scared when I first got this gig.....

Today was a sentencing hearing for one of my client. He is in early 20's, I beleive he was in special ed as a student. He sold cocain to support his habit, also to have friends and social status.

On the flip side, he was the most punctual, respectful and…

Today is Butter's estimated 16th Birthday!!! ( He came to us when he was a little less than a year old.)

He shared majority of my kids' lives, taught them responsibilities, compassion, empathy, and unconditional love.

Protected us, ( I was by myself and all of my kids were so little...) brought many joy to us.

Each winter gets more difficult for him, and his arthritis seems to progress. But, he is eating OK and still enjoy going outside. He loved the snow and enjoyed the…