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Operation Storybook: Addressing the Challenges of Military Pet Boarding Through Storytelling and Support
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SAN MARCOS, Calif., April 10, 2024 (CarryOnHarry.com)
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Dogs on Deployment, a renowned non-profit organization focused on supporting military families and their pets, proudly announces the launch of Operation Storybook, a national campaign aligning with the Month of the Military Child. Amidst rising challenges for military families, particularly in pet boarding and relocation, Operation Storybook aims to raise awareness and provide necessary support through a unique storytelling initiative.
The Rising Challenge for Military Families
In a post-pandemic world, military families are increasingly burdened with soaring pet shipping costs, exacerbated by limited space on military flights for companion pets. This escalating financial pressure comes as a stark challenge for families relocating overseas, demanding immediate attention and support.
Introducing Operation Storybook
Operation Storybook is a dynamic campaign centered around Katrina Moore’s poignant children’s book “Sometimes Love,” which beautifully illustrates the emotional journey faced by military families. This story becomes a beacon of understanding and empathy, highlighting the unique experiences of military children and the crucial role of pets in their lives.
A Critical Time for Action
The urgency of the campaign is underscored by recent trends showing a staggering surge in pet travel costs, deeply impacting military families in transit. Dogs on Deployment steps in as a vital lifeline, providing over $543,560 in financial aid for pet relocation and fostering over 6,789 military pets to date. A highlight of this effort is the story of Lieutenant Taylor Rogers and his family, who, facing a difficult relocation, found a loving temporary home for their dog, Vince, through Dogs on Deployment.
Campaign Goals and Activities
Operation Storybook aims to:
- Increase awareness of the challenges military families face regarding pet boarding and relocation.
- Foster empathy and understanding through the powerful narrative of “Sometimes Love.”
- Raise funds to support Dogs on Deployment’s mission in assisting military families with pet boarding and relocation expenses.
Participation and Support
To participate in Operation Storybook, individuals are encouraged to contribute $40 or more, receiving a copy of “Sometimes Love” as a token of appreciation. These donations are instrumental in enhancing Dogs on Deployment’s ability to continue supporting military families, ensuring they remain united with their pets.
Join the Movement
“Dogs on Deployment invites communities across the nation to join hands in supporting our military families during these challenging times. Operation Storybook is more than a campaign; it’s a movement towards empathy, understanding, and tangible support for those who sacrifice so much for our country,” states Alisa Sieber-Johnson, CEO of Dogs on Deployment.
For More Information
Visit the Operation Storybook Campaign Page (www.bit.ly/operationstorybook) for more information on how to participate and support this vital cause.
Source: Dogs on Deployment
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Scottsdale Author Joe Reina’s New Novel Follows a Killer Who Gets Away With It
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Joe Reina has published a new novel, "Shadows over Scottsdale: An Unsolved Murder Mystery," built around a scenario true-crime statistics make uncomfortably familiar: a man commits a devastating crime and simply disappears, leaving investigators and a grieving community with no resolution.
The book follows a character named Robert, who flees the country using forged documents and a cargo ship after an act of destruction that leaves behind, as the publisher describes it, charred remains and an unanswered investigation. The case goes cold. The novel, according to its publisher, is less concerned with the mechanics of the escape than with what happens afterward, to the people left waiting for answers that never come.
Reina, now retired in Scottsdale, spent decades in international business across apparel, footwear, and real estate, with extensive time in Europe and a particular connection to Italy that shaped two earlier books, "The Goat Sleeps in the Kitchen" and "A Love Affair in Tuscany." "Shadows over Scottsdale" marks a different direction, built instead around the real scale of unsolved homicide in the U.S. The publisher’s materials cite roughly 346,000 unsolved homicides since 1965, with more than a dozen occurring unresolved each day. Separate reporting on the book has cited a figure of about 7,778 murders in 2023 alone, which it similarly frames as more than a dozen a day going unresolved.
"Writing ‘Shadows over Scottsdale’ forced me to confront uncomfortable questions about justice itself," Reina said, according to the announcement. "Too many crimes go unsolved, too many families wait endlessly for answers. I wanted readers to understand that behind every cold case statistic is a real story, real suffering, and real questions that may never be answered."
The publisher positions the novel as an examination of institutional limits as much as a crime story: the toll of a case gone cold on the people who can’t move past it, and what it means for a community when accountability simply never arrives.
"Shadows over Scottsdale" is published by Covenant Books and is available in paperback and hardcover through the publisher’s website and major retailers including Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Apple Books.
Cold-case statistics tend to get cited and then forgotten. Studio CarryOnHarry is curious whether fiction built directly around that number does more to stick with a reader than the number alone ever does.
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Joe Reina’s ‘Lost Masterpieces’ Imagines a Fictional Farewell Among Renaissance Painters
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Joe Reina has published a new novel, "Lost Masterpieces: Three Paintings, 500 Years A Journey Through Time," built around an imagined scene from Renaissance history: the night before Leonardo da Vinci leaves for Milan, when three fellow painters each hand him a small work carrying a private message.
According to the announcement, those three gifts come from Sandro Botticelli, Titian, and Andrea Mantegna, each painting standing in for a different kind of counsel. Botticelli’s piece is described as layered with allegory and coded warnings about power and patronage. Titian’s is framed as warm and sensual, suggesting reinvention and a break from convention. Mantegna’s is austere and classically precise, encoding discipline and endurance. According to the announcement, these three paintings form a wordless exchange between masters, transmitting wisdom, mutual regard, and assurance across generations through visual means.
Reina comes to this material from outside the art world. His career was built in apparel, footwear, and real estate development in Chicago, and the publisher’s materials trace his interest in European history, and in Italy specifically, to years of international business travel. He has published several previous books, including "The Goat Sleeps in the Kitchen," "A Love Affair in Tuscany," and "Shadows over Scottsdale," before turning to this account of a fictionalized moment at the hinge of the Renaissance.
"I wanted to capture that extraordinary moment when masters speak to each other across time through their work," Reina said in the announcement. "These paintings represent not just gifts, but a conversation about what it means to pursue greatness while remaining grounded in purpose and principle."
The book is published through Covenant Books and is available in hardcover and paperback, as well as through Apple Books, Amazon, Google Play, and Barnes & Noble.
Studio CarryOnHarry is intrigued by novels that build fiction around real historical figures at a specific, dramatized turning point rather than attempting straight biography — the approach succeeds or fails based on how seamlessly the fictional moment integrates with documented historical fact.
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