Joan Bundy Law

05/25/2026

Well, we did it: We picked out a new girl pig to sponsor at Ironwood Pig Sanctuary! Her name is Penny Lane, which fits perfectly with our other recent sponsored pigs Henry ("Henry the 8th") and Eleanor ("Eleanor Pigby"), the latter who just passed away and was the reason for our special visit. Penny Lane, who used to be called Penelope until they ended up with too many Penelopes, is a special gal who was born with some defects that resulted in basically a smushed-looking face, which we think makes her even cuter!

Here is a brief summary from Julia Ewer, the sponsorship coordinator at Ironwood:

"Penny Lane arrived on Valentine’s Day 2025. Her human was moving and didn’t want to take her along. He said his sister had “dumped” her on him two years prior and he had no interest in having a pig. So sad for this sweet girl!

Penny Lane was taken to the vet clinic in order to get spayed. Unfortunately, they were unable to do the surgery because her trachea is deformed and they were not able to intubate her to undergo anesthesia. We try to spay the females even though all our males are neutered because around 85% of intact females develop uterine tumors as they age. Hopefully, that will not be the case for Penny Lane.

There must not have been much socialization at her previous home because Penny Lane was reluctant to be touched. Over time, she has gotten more comfortable with that and lets us pet her now. Relaxing enough to lie down for a belly rub is still a dream, but we’re getting there and are just happy that she is here with people who love her and care about her. Sadly, this made caring for Penny Lane when her eye troubles started a bit difficult.

In August 2025, Penny Lane was having some eye trouble. We took her into the vet where she was diagnosed with conjunctivitis and put on several different eye medications. She wasn’t a huge fan of us having to get close and personal to administer the 4 different medications in her right eye but she tolerated it well as long as she was distracted by food or juice. After about a month, her conjunctivitis was cleared up but her dry remained so Penny Lane continues to get eye meds once a day, however, now it is only one eye med.

At the beginning of October 2025, we started introducing Penny Lane into Northeast field along with 5 other pigs. One of these pigs is Gracie Mae, whom she’d become friends with a couple of months prior. It took a couple of months, and Penny Lane proving to be a bit spicy, holding her ground with the other pigs, but she is fully integrated into the herd! The reason for this process taking so long is due to staff always needing to be present to watch over the pigs so that when they fight to establish hierarchy in the herd and over territories and shelter, we can break them up quickly and keep them from hurting themselves and each other.

Penny Lane is doing great and enjoying her life here. She is 10.5 years old and in good health. Her face is a bit deformed and crooked, which gives her a unique, precious appearance."

Welcome, Penny Lane, to the Joan Bundy Law family of sponsored rescue pigs!

05/23/2026

So a few days ago a brochure was tucked in our home's security door from this church in town that "stole" the logo from my business. LOL! ;) I saw their church go up in a strip mall and the logo design and colors were very similar to mine. It's OK, though: We're in totally different lines of work; they save souls, and I just help souls through divorces and other difficult times. But it is kind of funny. Peace out, peeps!

05/21/2026

I just helped my former landlord (and longtime friend) by notarizing her will and other estate planning documents. I did not charge her anything although in Arizona you can charge up to $10 per document plus travel fees. She is retiring and moving to Washington state, Vancouver area. So happy for her! Enjoy retirement, Elaine!

05/06/2026

I had the extreme pleasure of participating in Law Day 2026 on Saturday, May 2, sponsored by the State Bar of Arizona. I chose the virtual option so that I could work from home, and I successively met with three individuals in 30-minute sessions to try to answer their questions, which ranged from child custody/support to child guardianship to graying multistate divorce without children. I always say I get more out of volunteering than I give back, and this was certainly the case with Law Day 2026!

05/01/2026

Happy May Day, everybody! In recognition of it also being NAU Giving Day 2026, I wanted to share with you how proud I am of the scholarship recipients I have enjoyed assisting and getting to know. Here is a letter my most recent one wrote to me: "Hi, My name is Isabella Hernandez and I applied to this scholarship after my roommate Theo sent it to me because I am the only person they know interested in family law. Family law is often overlooked within the legal community as it has become more about equity rather than equality and I am inspired everyday to change that. With this scholarship I will be able to continue my undergraduate education and later move on to law school in order to have the opportunity to practice family law. I want to give a big thank you to the Philosophy department and Joan Bundy for giving me the opportunity to further my education to eventually become the change I want to see in the world." This. This is why I do what I do, to give back. I may not have the largest scholarship at NAU, but I do what I can to pay it forward. I encourage you to do the same whenever you can to whatever matters most to you.

04/30/2026

Did you know that more than three-fourths of all U.S. households with pets now allow their companion animals to sleep with them (no, let me rephrase that, LOL, sleep on the same bed as the humans at the same time)? Yep, it's true! The rate for dogs (74%; AZ is even higher at 81%!) is slightly higher than cats (55%), maybe due to more cat allergies? I know this is way up from what it used to be as only about a third of Boomers report doing this. Pets have truly arrived; they are cherished members of the family! :)

The Pets & Housing Data: 2025 Edition is a comprehensive national dataset on the intersection of pets and rental housing.

04/28/2026

I am so sorry to have to relay some sad news, but one of the rescued pigs we were sponsoring at Ironwood Pig Sanctuary in Tucson has died. Her name was Eleanor, and she is the one I recorded the video "Eleanor Pigby"--a takeoff of the Beatles song "Eleanor Rigby"--about. She was old by farm sow standards, and she had recurrent cancer. The sanctuary was kind enough to let us know and send a really sweet "snout print" of hers to us. It's so adorable, isn't it? May she rest in porcine peace.