» Monthly Archives: December 2009

2009 – A Personal Retrospective

By: Ingrid King on 12/31/2009

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There is no doubt that for me, this will always be the Year of Buckley’s Story – I began writing in January, the book was published in October, and the rest of the year has been a…

Weekends are For Pets

By: Ingrid King on 12/26/2009

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My article Life Lessons From Our Pets is featured in this week’s Weekends are For Pets Newsletter from PetFoodDirect.com!

Holiday Memories and Traditions

By: Ingrid King on 12/22/2009

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With Christmas almost upon us, memories of Christmases past always seem to be flooding in for me.  Some of them are wonderful, others are bittersweet.  The photo above was my Christmas card the first year Buckley spent…

10 Favorite Books for 2009

By: Ingrid King on 12/19/2009

After seeing some “favorite books of 2009″ list on other blogs, I started to think about my favorites for the year.  I find this very difficult to do – for starters, I don’t keep a written record of what I’ve…

Holiday Memories in The Courier News

By: Ingrid King on 12/17/2009

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The Courier News, a Chicago Sun Times newspaper, picked up my Holiday Memories story Oh Christmas Tree, Oh Christmas Tree!

Chicago seems to like me – this is the second time that a Chicago paper has picked…