Safe and Ecologically Friendly Dog Toys
This is Maggie asked to sit and stay beside her overflowing toy box, the one I promised to clean out over the holiday break. (You can see how well I did.) In spite of having two overfull bags of "toys kept away from Maggie to re-introduce at a later time," the toy box in our living room has gotten out of hand. I will clean it out soon, I will I will I will, but it got me thinking about what is new in dog toys and, heaven help me, what I should be looking for in new ones. Primary on my list is safety, of course, but secondarily I want to buy her new toys from places that are as good to the planet as they are for our dogs. That got me hunting around on the internet for eco-friendly dog Read More
Love Has No Age Limit–And nor do the stories of our first days with them!
Nothing like the end of a year and the beginning of a new one to cause us to do some accounting--of things accomplished, and things desired for the future. This morning I was doing a different kind of accounting, looking at book sales as much out of curiosity as anything else, and discovered that the best selling book from my website for the last four years is Love Has No Age Limit. It's sold over 48,000 copies in just the last four years. (The Puppy Primer is close behind, at over 44,000.) I gotta say, that made me really, really happy. Dr. Karen London (see her columns in Bark Magazine) and I co-wrote the book as a labor of love for all the wonderful people who adopt adult or Read More
Favorites of 2019; New Names for Ewe Lambs
I'm still reveling in a holiday break. Seeing friends, working Maggie, learning about writing fiction, cooking, eating . . . Even organized my massive collection of recipes: I also have file as big as your arm of "recipes that I should try sometime." There are so many that I'd have to do little but cook for months to try them all out. Worse things could happen. I thought a fun way to end the year is to list some of my favorites in hopes that they add to your life as they have to mine. I'm counting on you all to add your own and enrich our lives even more. I'm interspersing my list of favorites with some of the favorite photographs that I've taken, not just from 2019, but from Read More