Helping animals in Japan.

I haven’t posted about the events in japan, but i’ve been following closely with a heavy heart. What about the poor animals that are lost / hungry / starving or hurt?    The enormity of all this leaves me in a sad place.

The artists, bloggers, designers and businesses reaching out is inspiring.


I just read that my friends at Firstmate pet foods recently made a huge donation of pet food to help feed the dogs & cats in need in japan. thanks firstmate!


I have decided to forgo dinners out for the next month and  made donations to these organizations on behalf of  Aspen (above) who wanted to reach out to her  fellow international animal friends.  She was a rescue and knows what it is like to be hungry and scared.

Some facts about Animal rescue orgs. and great people doing great things in Japan:

Animal rescue kansai: helped over 600 animals after the Great Hanshin quake in 1995.


World vets: World Vets is a non-government organization (NGO) providing veterinary aid around the globe in collaboration with animal advocacy groups, foreign governments, US and foreign military groups and veterinary professionals abroad.

wspa: world society for the protection of animals has a 30 year history of helping animals in disasters.

Cabin fever

It is Friday. March is nearly over - where did the time go? I have officially been at my new job for 2 months now and it has literally flown by. Spring is a time for renewal and I have been speaking to many different people and they seem to be emerging from their cocoons - as have I.

I have been heads down and working - travelling and cooped up in an office all day for weeks.

I am eager to shed these woolly clothes I adored and cooed about back in the fall/winter. I will willingly trade in my knee high boots for some ballet flats and sandals. I want to exchange these black tights and "jeggings" for light dresses and sweaters. A friend said that Spring is teasing us , and I could not agree more. The sun is out late, the birds are singing and the cherry trees have buds on them that are threatening to burst any day now. I am just itching to do something, anything that does not include being indoors all day.

I am longing for warmer nights and motorcycle rides with friends, for the smell of flowers and fresh leaves and for the better moods that people are in when there are more sunny days than rainy ones.

Spring can't come soon enough.