THEY SAY YOU MAKE PLANS AND THEN GOD LAUGHS… I guess I relate a lot more to this statement since Ally and I started rescuing horses from the slaughter holding facility. Sometimes I long for simple pleasures like waiting for a haircut, or going to pick up a pre ordered electronic, or getting a scheduled service on your car completed. These seem like mundane every day things to most people but in all honesty they feel like luxuries to Ally and I. My therapist says I embrace the norm because of the

Poor older lady didn't let anyone into her home for 26 years — I finally learned why when an ambulance took her away. __________________________________________ I'm 38F, married with two kids, living in a quiet Midwestern town. After almost a decade here, I thought I knew my neighbors. Turns out, you never really do. When we moved in, everyone was welcoming — except the woman in the weather-beaten Victorian at the end. Mrs. Halloway. No one knew her first name. She never waved, never smiled. Jus