Everybody loves getting flowers. Flowers are very colorful. Flowers smell great. Flowers say “I love you.” When someone gives youContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: Flowers for Shells”
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Being Brave with Bruce: Long Winter Nap
When you depend on the weather to regulate your personal thermostat, all seasons are not created equally. This is whyContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: Long Winter Nap”
Resting in Place with Malti: If the Bath Fits
Every day, some things stay the same. And some things change. Like you, for example. Maybe you still have allContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: If the Bath Fits”
Resting in Place with Malti: Little Tortle Bubble
Being small and slow and shelled, many other beings automatically assume you don’t know how to do tricks. Their eyes,Continue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: Little Tortle Bubble”
Being Brave with Bruce: All That You Are
Just being born with a hard outer shell automatically means you are brave. After all, you wouldn’t come with extraContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: All That You Are”
Resting in Place with Malti: Letting the Love In
When you first pop out the top of your small round white escape pod, you get so much attention. SoContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: Letting the Love In”
Being Brave with Bruce: Take a Big Deep Breath
If there is one thing tough times seem tailor-made to teach us, it might be simply this…. You can neverContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: Take a Big Deep Breath”
Resting in Place with Malti: A Raspberry A Day
There are days when everything just flows. You keep to your set schedule. Those check-marks next to all those to-doContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: A Raspberry A Day”
Being Brave with Bruce: A Fresh New View
Routine can be comforting. You wake up, pop open your box, slowly stretch out your (adorable, yellow-dotted) front legs, backContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: A Fresh New View”
Being Brave with Bruce: Best Laid Plans
Plans are good. In fact, plans are great. Or at least they are great until they stop working. Just likeContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: Best Laid Plans”
Being Brave with Bruce: All Kinds of Brave
As any being who has ever been rescued knows, being brave is definitely an inside job. Sometimes being brave meansContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: All Kinds of Brave”
Being Brave with Bruce: Feeling Fern-tastic
As everyone knows, orange is the best color. Orange has so many great properties. For example, orange is a fabulousContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: Feeling Fern-tastic”
Resting in Place with Malti: Stop and Smell the Ferns
Life sure can get hectic sometimes. And crazy. And busy. It can seem like it goes by in the blinkContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: Stop and Smell the Ferns”
Being Brave with Bruce: What Box Turtle?
“Extreme cuteness.” In some scenarios, it can be such a blessing. Then again, there are those other scenarios. Truth beContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: What Box Turtle?”
Being Brave with Bruce: Food Chain Friends
Regardless of your ranking in the greater food chain o’ life, it can be a full time job to figureContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: Food Chain Friends”
Being Brave with Bruce: Cuteness Contest
It doesn’t take much time living in an interspecies flock to notice that beings without shells tend to be aContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: Cuteness Contest”
Being Brave with Bruce: Home Together
It is true that beings with shells tend to be homebodies. And thank goodness for it, when you are (quiteContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: Home Together”
Being Brave with Bruce: Sharing Your Shell
When you’ve never known life without having a shell of your very own, it is hard to imagine what itContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: Sharing Your Shell”