Tattoos

For quite some time I’ve been planning to get a memorial tattoo for all my Bridge kids. I’ve kicked around various versions of a winged greyhound…sometimes in a cloud…sometimes running. Lots of ways to do it. Then one day I had an idea. I decided that the next time we lost a hound, I’d...
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I’ve always admired the classic tattoo designs and when Ken got his traditional heart and banner for our anniversary, I’ve been drooling over it ever since. With Rocky having some mysterious illness that is evading diagnosis, I decided I wanted to get a tattoo to honor him. I’m pretty sure he’s going to be...
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Ken and I aren’t like most folks. We have 19 dogs. We both work from home. We spend nearly 24 hours a day, 7 days a week together. It only makes sense that our marriage would have started off differently from most folks. Six years ago, Ken and I boarded a plane bound for...
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Last week while Ken was getting the Buddha tattoo, I flipped through the book of a visiting artist and was totally blown away by the work I saw. In fact, the work was so incredibly detailed and realistic it was hard to believe I was looking at tattoos. That artist was Cesar Morales of...
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After getting my greyhound tattoo last week, I felt I needed something to balance it out. Something with a little color. There was no doubt what I wanted:  a lotus. In Buddhism, the lotus is one of the eight auspicious symbols and represents many teachings: The roots of a lotus are in the mud, the...
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I love tattoo’s. Love. Them. I’ve always envied folks that have the courage to decorate their body with this amazing artform. Fortunately Ken feels the same way and, though we’ve talked for years about getting some tattoos, we’ve never acted on it…until now. Ken has a couple, poorly done tattoos from his younger days...
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