A neighborhood woman adopted a special needs dog and spends time caring for it every day. The dog displays unending love toward her, despite being terribly abused as a puppy by his prior owner.
A Good News Network member, Peggy Ijams, made this video about her neighbor, “an angel who walks among us”, and calls it a tale of forgiveness.
(Read also this Pawtucket Times story about another GNN member, Herb Weiss, who adopted a special needs dog with a host of problems. Weiss and a partner say they couldn’t be happier with the new addition to the family, even though they sometimes feel as though they run an animal hospital themselves.)
Last month’s appointment of a Saudi woman as Deputy Minister of Women’s Education – the first female appointment of its kind – is an encouraging development, one that may influence change and accelerate reform in Saudi Arabia.
They named it Bo, after Bo Diddley, and Michelle’s father, whose nickname was Diddley. 