Solo-Dog comes home! On this past Sunday, LE and I drove to the East Bay city of Pleasanton, California to meet ‘Buddy.’ Buddy is a 14-month old black Labrador Retriever  Pointer mix who needed a new home. Since deciding to adopt a pet, LE and I...

Am I looking for the perfect dog or the perfect woman? When it comes to picking domestic partners, my track record isn’t spectacular.  Ex #1 My first wife was, and remains, a lovely woman.  That we grew in opposite directions was, perhaps, the...

I’m not getting any younger, so why wait? As Summer slips into Fall here in the Monterey Bay Area, the crowds have thinned on the beaches leaving only dog walkers and those still trying to jog their way to a slimmer waistline. While I’m firmly in the...

Would You Rather Be Buried or Cremated? It began innocently with one of those infamous Facebook quizzes. You know the ones, written by fifth graders? Yeah, those. So, I decided to depart from my normal FB-MO and take the quiz. OK, it actually...

I’ve said goodbye to daughter a hundred times. At the conclusion of each weekend she’d spend with me when she was young; At the conclusion of each telephone conversation over the years.  But only a few of them have been as emotionally charged as the...