I didn’t mean to pick the perfect audio book, but I did.
The whole way up to Colorado we’ve been listening to Marley and Me, by John Grogan. It’s been on the New York Times bestseller list forever, it seems, and I finally got around to it.
I see why the book deserves all the attention [...]
My husband, the Bear dog, and I are heading for Colorado tomorrow. I hear the temps are 70 in the day, 40 at night. What’s that like?
Colorado has THE best coffee ever brewed. It’s one of the reasons I go there twice a year. The best coffee in the world is [...]
Look, I know he’s old, all right? He’ll be fourteen in November. And I know in my heart I love him, but
THE BREATHING HAS TO STOP!!!
It’s not just breathing, it’s this raspy, Darth Vader-like gasping and panting. He gasps all night. He gasps all day, lying on his bed in my [...]
Maybe some of you have seen this by now. It’s one of those things that makes the e-mail rounds, until by the time someone like me gets it (thank you, Annette), there are about five hundred forwards on it.
But I can see why:
TO: GOD:
FROM: THE DOG
Dear God: Why do humans smell the flowers, [...]
Once again proving that cats are scary.
Sure, someone might see this as a good thing, but I’m telling you we have a bully cat just like that in our neighborhood, and he treed a Girl Scout.
Wouldn’t you rather have a dog?
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My book: I got an e-mail from my editor at Knopf saying the production schedule for my novel THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION has been sped up, so the novel will come out in summer, 2007. Hurray!! Fall, 2007 was sounding SO far away. Now the book will be out just in [...]
There’s a little bit of elder dog abuse going on in my house. Should I be worried that last night the only way Blue could get away from Bear was to run into the shower with me? And that Bear then followed him in, and suddenly what used to be a private, contemplative [...]
Ugh. My least favorite change of seasons.
I have a good old dog (good now, because he is old and no longer swift enough to steal food off the counter and race into the living room and hide under the piano which is too wide for me to be able to grab him by the [...]