Fostering a dog can be scary. When you welcome the dog, you also welcome the tiny creatures stowed away inside, warriors in a Trojan Horse. Rescue dogs are often so stressed and malnourished that their immune […]
These are some word-love-related excerpts from my manuscript BORDERLAND: A DOG, A LOVE, A DOUBLE-HELIX (or I might call the book AWESOME DOG, not sure). Anyway, the passages come late the book, from […]
This “Flash Nonfiction” first appeared on Word Riot. Lisa reads it aloud to you here. Once, a man I loved left my dog alone in a car with an apple pie. The man […]
A lot of people think if you love dogs, you’re probably personifying them. It’s easy to see why when people carry them around in Snuggies or put them in T-shirts that say, […]
This is the last week of the Dog Days of Summer, marking the end of the reign of Sirius and the constellation called “Canis Major.” The constellation Canis Major contains the star called “Alpha Canis” […]
