Friday, January 30, 2015
Dog smiles
11:46 AM

Saffron greeted me with the usual wag and that inimitable smile when she came through the door for a visit this week. A wagging tail from the dog you love is entirely logical. But how can a dog with no lips smile? Come on, girls, smile for the cameraSaffron is my son’s 15-year-old whippet. She is without a doubt Garrett’s dog, but she and I have...
Their Maggie
3:00 AM

I read somewhere, once, that you never get over your first dog. And I think that's probably true. If you are fortunate enough to start out with a wonderful pup, no other dog will ever compare. Likewise, if you begin with a horrible or difficult beast, well, you probably won't ever go back to owning dogs. Lucky me, I began with the former. A springer...
Thursday, January 22, 2015
In School
9:24 PM

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Back to school again. And again. And again.
5:57 PM

By now, I should be used to the first day of school. I have, after all, had 60 of them. There are few events in life that so mix anticipation with trepidation as the first day of school. In elementary school, I hoped to see friends who summer parted from me, but then I worried that the multiplication tables had changed over the break. In high school,...
Friday, January 16, 2015
A Pause, A View
6:21 AM

It’s not a place to stand and ponder, not in a house full of children and dogs and cats and the occasional tortoise winging up and down the stairs, always in a hurry to get somewhere else. It’s more of a pause. A breath in and out. A moment to recharge. The window is at its best in early morning,...
Sticks in the window
12:01 AM

Dear Gillian, I never really thought I would see beauty in a winter-bared tree trunk. But I suppose it is really a matter of how you frame it. I learned about forests in the Northwest, where the definition of “tree” is something very tall, very green and very determined to stay that way in the coldest of winters. When I first saw Missouri in...
Friday, January 9, 2015
3:01 AM

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Dad, professor, writer and ... uh, something
3:00 AM

I’m a congenital writer.Some people write because their third-grade teacher threatened to send them back to kindergarten if they didn’t finish their essay. For others, like me, the taskmaster is deep in their brain. We don’t write when we have to, we just have to write. Which makes my predicament worse. I have writer’s block. For the past few months,...
Thursday, January 8, 2015
8:33 PM
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