I Am Missing the First Soul-Killing Freeze of the Season
2016-12-15 – I’m in North Carolina and I am missing the first soul-killing freeze of the season. The weather is not such a treat here. We had weather like this […]
Tag Archives: dogs
My Dog Lefty Has Arthritis
2016-07-19 – My dog Lefty has arthritis. I began to figure this out on my own when I noticed that his limping seemed to follow a long period of inactivity. […]
Rahm Proposes Dog-Poop Fine as Thinly Disguised Tax
2016-03-22 – Rahm is at it again! (And we thought he was different from the Daleys.) These politicians don’t want to take the heat for taxes. And they don’t want […]
Teaching Lefty to Be Blasé
2015-03-08 – Lefty is never blasé. He is sensitive, attentive, engrossed, and enthralled, even sometimes fearful, but never blasé. He is also only marginally educable. In almost 10 years, I’ve […]
Jumping On the Couch
2016-01-28 – We live on a corner. It’s a quiet neighborhood, but we live across from a school and a park. The park blocks the through-streets, so we do get […]
Gracie Is Schrödinger’s Cat
2015-12-10 – We have two cats. One is named Poppy. One is named Gracie. Gracie has hyperactive thyroid—or is it hypoactive? I can never get that straight. Whatever you call […]
A Canine Competitor in the Fertilizer Business
2015-08-25 – Do your dogs have a pattern of where they will and will not poop? My dog Lefty does. He rarely poops in the house and then only if […]
