Pup/date of a Twelve Week Old

Two more weeks have passed and we’re creeping up on the one month mark of puppy-in-the-house joy. I won’t say that she’s been some precious angel: in fact, there have been moments very much like last night when she — making eye contact with me and (I swear) giving me a “whatcha gonna do bud?” …

Pup/date of a Ten Week Old

Between writing a novel through November and welcoming a new dog into the house just two weeks ago, I haven’t had much chance to pause and reflect on flux of changes happening around here. “why yes, i would luv to go fer a walk!” We are just a couple short days from the best kind …

Pup/date, Week 1

I wanted to mark the seventeenth of November as the day following my last full night sleep … at least for a while. That next day we drove out to the country, met with a woman with whom I’d been corresponding for about four months, and drove home with an eight-week old puppy. Cricket is …