Year of the Dog, II
Naptime for Daisy Girl It is interesting to watch the interaction of the new Boxer puppy with our older dogs. We have two Boston terriers, a nine-year-old female and a four-year-old male. The female is the Alpha dog, and she has began disciplining the young Boxer, now firmly named Daisy. A snap! A hard growl! And the older dog is allowed first out the door or the preferred place on the afghan at the foot of

The Year of the Dog, I
We are dog people, my wife and I. I am so by nature. I have had dogs since I was six. She says she was free of the disease until infected by me. We now have another dog, a Boxer puppy, a young female who came into our life because six years ago my wife met a handsome Boxer named Trooper in a hotel elevator in Rochester, Minnesota. Since we have moved from Springfield, and we now have room for a large fenced area, Belinda scratched her six year itch by

Another Bit of Flash Fiction Published at Camroc Press Review
I Could See My Blood Beth wore blue jeans and a pale pink bra when she slapped me. And the rest was familiar too. Our bedroom, hardwood floors, the desk and the lamp, and our wedding picture above the bed. Beth's black hair, ice pale eyes afire, the weight of her breasts, and the slope of her belly, and the cradle of her hips.

Congratulating Peter Singer
There is an article in The Daily Princetonian celebrating Peter Singer's ten year anniversary at that institution. Of no special import, this article, other than it accused one of the groups leading the opposition to Singer's appointment -- the disability rights organization, Not Dead Yet -- of staging "violent protests." The misstate

Less "Wheelchair-Bound" Than Before
The issue of the so-called "Dignity Wheelchair" came up for discussion about people with disabilities who can sometimes influence the media. One person took action, Brewster Thackeray, AARP's Disability Community Liaison. Thackeray wrote me, "I just had a good chat with Jeff Deutscher, the media contact at