Therapy Dog Ned with his co-worker, artist Ginna Dowling

I'm not gonna lie.... Sometimes this project was agonizingly painful, and other times it was absolutely joyous. Another difficult thing that happened in the time during the project is that my mother died. Her death made the magnitude of my grief for the participants seem even sadder and sharper, but I have to say that part of what kept me emotionally grounded were Ned and his sister Dany, and the other wonderful therapy dogs you will meet further along in the story. Their ability to heal is nothing short of miraculous.