New Normal

It has been a while since I updated the Solstice Blog. We have added new family members and faced some big challenges in 2024. That being said, we are looking forward to 2025.

As of January 31st I will be hanging up my professional hat and retiring from State Farm Insurance after 36.5 years. I spent the last 15 years as a corporate trainer/facilitator, a job I loved and was good at doing. This retirement will mean I will be developing a new normal.

One of the things I am hoping to do is leverage my people training and dog training skills into is providing some instruction in the sniffy sports that I love, I’ll be spending the winter months working on continuing education and working on training plans for the spring, as well as working with my own crew.

Speaking of crew, I will be updating pages but there are some new Cardigans at Solstice, we call them the BRAT Brothers. Joining JeffJeff and Marcher are Strider and Hoops here at Solstice, Strider and Hoops are owned by Cody Smith (our housemate) and co-owned by me, and joining the Co-Owned team along with Belle and Sammich (with Kathy Davis and Dr. Ryan Buzard) is JohnJohn/Dr. John (with Julia Dancy) of course Belle and Sammich are in the Phoenix metro area with Kathy and JohnJohn splits his time in Oregon and New Mexico with Julia.

See ya lots more in 2025!