Dog Vs. Groomer: When Your Pet Hates Getting Haircuts

A few months ago, I wrote an article for Make It Better about how much my Maltese-Shiatsu Jefe hates my husband Dan.   But there’s one person in the world Jefe hates more than Dan – the dog groomer. In the 7 years we’ve had Jefe, he’s been banned from two grooming establishments because he […]

Pet Vs. Spouse

What to do when your dog hates your husband?   Soon after my husband Dan and I got married nine years ago, we took the next logical step—we adopted a Maltese-Shiatsu who had been left tied to a fire hydrant in the city for days. The vet estimated his age to be between 6 and […]

Senior Class: Zumba

Latin music thumps from loud speakers. A sweat-drenched group of ten people dance the mambo, cha cha and tango.   But this isn’t a nightclub or an episode of “Dancing with the Stars.” This is a Wednesday morning at the Highland Park Senior Citizen Center. For two years, about ten people between the ages of […]