Flight Training
From Chicken Soup for the Soul: My Hilarious, Heroic, Human Dog
By Nancy Fine

We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.
~Thomas A. Edison

Jake didn’t know it, but we were flying from Oregon to Georgia and he’d be on more than one flight. I wasn’t sure how he’d do, but he does have the temperament for travel. He adapts easily to new situations. Part of the credit goes to his breed, Cavachon. That’s a fancy mutt term for a Bichon Frise and Cavalier King Charles Spaniel hybrid.

This was a lot to ask of him, though. And I wasn’t my normal self. Normally, I think of myself as resilient and adventurous, but my world had unraveled. A year earlier, Matt, my amazing husband of thirty-four years, had died suddenly in an accident at home. Five weeks later, a windstorm hit, dropping towering evergreens on my front porch and garage. I knew one person couldn’t manage the hay meadow and five-bedroom home. I sold and moved to a small rental. It is lovely, but the downsize was grueling. (Keep reading)