Brookfield Zoo is free to the public from January 1 to February 29th! Amazing. It's a beautiful zoo. The animals appear to be well taken care of and the zoo makes a solid attempt to recreate natural environments, provide enrichment opportunities and educate the public. I can't imagine how hard their job is, something tells me that giraffes are not meant to live in Chicago! The way I think about animals is ever evolving. This past semester I co-taught a class with Dean Alzada Tipton. She is fabulous! And quite possibly the biggest animal advocate I have ever met. Our class was on the relationship between animals and people. I think I may have mentioned it before. In short, we went over a vast amount of topics from factory farming to clothing to cock fighting to the Kentucky Derby. We discussed class systems, religion, food, the environment, science and medicine, the domestication of dogs, why frogs are important to mankind and more. This class was intense! Alzada pu...
The escapades of Savannah Joy and her big sister Cassidy Grace are the primary reason for this blog's existence. However, I also throw in random thoughts, photographs, adventures and other tidbits to keep it interesting :-)