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About me - Angela Schmoll

More than 25 years ago I walked into my hometown newspaper to take the job I had dreamed about since a college English teacher told me I had a flare for writing. Since that time, as a community journalist with three different newspapers, I've heard and told

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Creative Writing > Reflections Reflections: Unusual stories about animal rescues: 2 of 6

Gypsy was well known at the interstate welcome center where she'd lived for nearly a year. Travelers on Interstate 77 heading south into North Carolina often glimpsed the small black and white dog, skirting the edges of the buildings and hoping for a handout, but no one could get close to her. Looking like a cross between a ...
Pets & Animals > Animal Facts & Resources The similarities of communication between humans and animals: 7 of 9

If you've ever stepped out the front door in your running shoes and had your dog greet you with happy barking and a wagging tail that summons half the dogs in the neighborhood to join your morning jog, then you have an idea of how similar the communication between humans and animals can be. The dog's happy barks are just lik...
Parenting & Pregnancy > Problems Parents Face Single parents: Tips for taking care of yourself too: 21 of 26

Raising children without a spouse presents parents with a unique set of challenges, not only in taking care of their children on a day to day basis, but, equally importantly, in taking care of their own needs. The first barrier many parents have to overcome when it concerns their own needs is their willingness to give them a...
Pets & Animals > Dog Training Is crating your dog cruel?: 17 of 20

When it comes to crating our dogs, odds are good if we don't do it, it's because we think it's cruel. But in defining cruelty, we use our definition of it, not the dog's. Many things that dogs enjoy we would find cruel - rolling in manure or dead animals, chewing on bones, running for hours after something that won't be caug...