Goodbye Willie
Willie July 3, 2006 - April 15, 2019That'll do, Willie. That'll do. I can not write more right now. Not now. I can't even find the perfect photo to include. Not now. But I will have lots to say, when the miasma of this pain has cleared. So, so much to say about life and death and dogs and the biological miracle that is our relationship with them. And about Willie. Our Silly Billy Willie Boy.We are bereft, that's all I can say now.Here is what I sent friends yesterday morning, on Monday the 15th of April, 2019. I'm including it here, because so many of you feel like friends, even though we've never met.We wanted to let you know that we are putting Willie down tonight. His Read More
Dogwise–the (Not) Amazon of Dog Books
Recently Lisa Lemberger (Business Mgr, Numbers Wizard, HR guru) and I traveled to Wenatchee, WA to visit the good people at Dogwise. Several years ago we partnered with Dogwise such that they send out all orders that come in through our website. It's been a great arrangement--as the "Amazon of Dog Books" [I mean that in the best of all possible ways, not in a take over the earth kind of way] they are set up to mail packages all over the world to individual buyers, to big book distributors, like Ingram and Baker & Taylor, and to Amazon itself. But unlike Amazon, they are a small, family-run business that has staff that's been there for decades, and considers Dogwise part of their family Read More
I Am So Sorry
I am sorry to have to tell you that Willie, my Silly Billie Willie Boy, has metatastic pulmonary adenocarcinoma. Lung cancer. Chemo might slow its progression, but can’t cure it. Surgery isn’t an option.I thought you would want to know. So many of us here have become a close village of dog lovers, and have followed each other’s dogs for years. Many of you have read about Willie’s challenges in The Education of Will. I didn’t want to blindside you with the end of his life, which is predicted to come in two to six months. In my experience, people don’t want to be protected, they want to be informed.This chapter began with a quiet cough, a little mouse of a thing, a single solitary huff Read More