Our Dog Is Sensitive to Loud Noises—Like Gunshots
2021-01-14 – We had a shooting in my neighborhood the other day. It was spectacular, but details are sketchy. The gunman began his rampage on the south side of Chicago […]
Tag Archives: dogs
#Pocalypso | Dog-Walking Tactics
2020-04-06 – My dog Rebe seems afraid when I walk her past certain spots. She cowers or even lays down to avoid continuing. I’m not sure what she’s afraid of. […]
#Pocalypso | The Sounds We Listen To
2020-03-30 – Our dog Rebe makes squirrel sounds! Or that’s what we thought when we were walking her through the sculpture park yesterday. Usually when she sees a squirrel, she […]
Playing Fetch With Yourself . . . If You’re a Dog
2020-01-06 – This is a picture of my dog Rebe trying to carry a stick that is larger than she is. Rebe is a rescue dog, so we don’t know […]
My Year in Review
2019-12-30 – Everyone does it at this time of year. When else would you do it? At year’s end. So here’s my review of 2019. I started the year in […]
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 […]
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 […]
