Ella had a tough night, with thunder and lightning hunting for her in the early morning hours. I had a hard time getting her out the door at dawn for her walk. Then I had a hard time getting her out of the yard. Then I hard a hard time
Us: [waving across street] Hi, Russ! Him: [waving] Hi! How's Ella? Us: Great! Where's Marty? Him: With his other dad. Gay joint custody! Yay!
I'm not usually home when our dogwalker comes to take Ella out at midday, but yesterday I was. Once a day, Ella gets a treat called an Oinkie, which is basically tube of a smoked pig skin wrapped around a sweet potato center. Because of how they look,
Today the fabulous Ella turns eight. This morning, to celebrate, I took her to the beach for her morning walk. She flung herself off a ledge of sand, and it was so cute that I asked her to climb back to the top and jump off again so I could
In response to my post yesterday about the stray dog we helped, our neighbor Ann said the following on Facebook: This morning as I was leaving to go up north, I saw Lobo out on a walk. As he passed in front of my car, we made eye contact and
On Sunday I was getting over a cold. After our morning walk with Ella, I went to bed to take a nap. I hadn't been down for long, though, when █████ came in and said, "I know you're trying to sleep, but I know you'
We often say, my wife and I, that Ella is our first dog, the one you make your mistakes on. But for me, that isn't true. My first dog was Jessie, a runty black shepherd mix. Some of the mistakes I made with Jessie were things like Don&
In the indigo sky hang lights like lanterns strung from here to eternity. Bright holes punched in the night, they creep in from the east, queued for landing but aimed at the spotlit moon holding fast in their path. But the moon gives way, first to one plane, then the
Between five and six this morning, I had a pretty awful dream. I was somehow in a big grungy rusty white panel van with my family, who I guess were visiting town. Except it wasn't my family as it exists now. It was my parents circa the mid-
This morning, with a high of seventy degrees in the forecast, amazing for a November in Chicago, I drove the dog to Warren Park. That's where we go for a special treat instead of our usual neighborhood walk, because the squirrel chasing is most excellent, and there are
Don't call Ella cheap, but she did just get less expensive. Take an extra 30% off her 2011 calendar when you enter the coupon code EARLYBIRD305 at checkout! (Offer good through November 15, 2010.) Ella-Mental 2011 13-Month Calendar
Though █████ and I have fallen down on the job for the past few years, we've finally gotten it together enough to publish a sequel to the immensely popular Ella-Vation 2006 and Ella-Tion 2007 calendars. Yes, our furry little 33-pound calendar girl is back in her
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