Growing Bolder Community

I first posted this essay for CafeMom.com, but liked it so much I wanted to share! This Christmas stood out for a lot of non-traditional reasons. I was behind on everything due to multiple family disasters a hundred miles away that started in early November with my mother's broken leg and went downhill from there. I wrote no newsletters (though I still may get them out in mid- to late-January...

This week I had the pleasure to witness an important event in the lives of animals (and humans) in my community. The SPCA of Central Florida held a groundbreaking for the major expansion of their Seminole County (FL) shelter in Sanford. It took seven years of planning and fundraising, but now the construction has finally begun. When it's completed, there will be two new buildings adjacent to...