Satire is a lesson, parody is a game. – Vladimir Nabokov When I attended the University of Arizona in the…
No place for Lukewarm
I appreciate dogs for their capacity to adapt to conditions that they may have little control over. I am particularly…
my garden’s helper isn’t
“The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.” ― George Bernard Shaw,…
with apologies to Dostoyevsky
Dogs love routine. Walks, Feeding, sleeping. But especially walks. And they don’t understand ‘Cold and Flu Season’ that humans succumb…
If dogs & cats can be fabulous pals
The internet often buzzes when videos of baby elephants and horses, baby rhinos and goats, and dogs with blind horses…
What is so alluring about a dog’s ear?
Slurping is where I draw the line. I put up with it when a co-worker would eat soup in the…
Why aren’t weeds listed as GMO’s?
65 000,000 B.C. Asteroid strikes Earth (again). Dinosaurs and plants wiped out from massive fireball, dust, ash, and smoke in Earth’s…
Routine
Everyone in my neighborhood has at one time or another seen me out walking. For the most recent sixteen years,…
Old dogs, horses & Marlboro men
Forty years. I learned my way around animals while I was in high school in Tucson Arizona. Had I been…
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