Tag: dog
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August 31, 2022
From a family in Georgia: “We thought you might want to know that we adopted a dog from the pound. We love The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane (we read it together as a family), and because we believe this dog has found his way home we have decided to name him Eddie Tulane.” Families…
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November 25, 2021
Several years ago, on Thanksgiving Day, I was walking to a friend’s house. A man crossed the sidewalk in front of me, opened his car door and then turned to me and said, “I was gone for five minutes at the most. That’s all.” “How’s that?” I said. “She ate the entire pie. In five…
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January 26, 2021
Why do all your stories have animals in them? This is a question that kids ask me often. Recently, I found an answer in an old photo. It’s Philadelphia, 1967. I am three years old. My brother, Curt, is six. I don’t know how old the dog is. All I can tell you is that…
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May 9, 2019
Ramona and I were out walking and we both perked up when we saw a shaggy, winsome dog trotting toward us. “Can we say ‘hello?’” I asked the man walking the dog. “Absolutely,” said the man. There was a lot of tail wagging and sniffing. “What a fabulous looking dog,” I said. “Thanks,” he said.…
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May 2, 2019
Last week, I was taking care of a friend’s old dog. Walks are a different thing entirely when you’re with an old dog. You think that you’re looking at the world, seeing it. But then you take a walk with an old dog and you realize that you had been rushing past it all. “Here.…
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April 18, 2019
Speaking of dreams, one of my all time favorite short stories (Stephanie Vaughn’s “Dog Heaven”) starts with this sentence: “Every so often that dead dog dreams me up again.” I can’t possibly do this story justice. You need to read it for yourself. Suffice it to say, that the first lines of the story, and…