Gone to the dogs.

I've been a dog hater.  After all, dogs are so needy. They make a lot of noise (and poop). Badly behaved ones bite, and pee on furniture, and everywhere, simply everywhere, is hair from the endless scratching even when they're dosed with rabidly-expensive flea sh*t....

“Pono” is still the right thing.

I'm going to do a more controversial post again (brewing on another hot topic right now), but I thought a change of pace might be nice. We writers try to do that in our work, mix the sour with the sweet, follow action with consolidation. We don't want to exhaust our...

‘Pono’ means “do the right thing.”

Over Christmas break, my daughter found a neglected 6 pound scrap of elderly Pomeranian wandering outside our neighborhood in the dead of night. His collar had to be cut out of (color indeterminate) matted dreadlocks, his toenails were so long they looked like curling...

Dog People

I was a cat person. Dogs were too demanding, noisy, and needy. Cats, on the other hand—just throw out some food, pet them occasionally,  they’ll keep the mice down (except if old and lazy, see previous blog A Better Rat Trap) and add to quality of life with  purring...

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