There are a lot of things you can do to understand yourself better: from getting your head shrunk by a quack, to writing dumb, rambling blog entries. I have done both in my life - sometimes to a nauseating degree. A more unconventional method, however, is the act of fostering dogs. Rarely have I had…Read more On Hank, Dodger, Sadie and My Contradictory First Year of Fostering
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On Minnie: Four Days Later
Someone once told me that all dog stories end in pathos, and can't avoid being mawkish and trite. I think this is true. People don't really blab about their dogs if everything is going fine, much less on the Internet. That's why in writing Minnie's obituary a few days ago I tried to be straightforward.…Read more On Minnie: Four Days Later
The Complex – Chapter I: The Night Shift
Six months had passed since he had accepted the job, a part-time position working nights. The apartment complex where the job was located was one of those relics erected at the height of suburban sprawl, resting on an isolated campus amidst freeways and thoroughfares like a mid-Atlantic island, catering solely to the automobile crowd. There…Read more The Complex – Chapter I: The Night Shift
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