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&
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
Yesterday was 10/07/10, and Ella turned 7 * . Using the common yardstick of seven dog years to one human year, she's now older than either █████ or I, which makes me sad. (Good thing Ella is immortal, and will outlive us both.) Ella was six months old when
Even with her bath Tuesday evening, I'm still picking little specks of dried algae out of Ella's fur. It's like someone sprinkled her with diced parsley. If I smell a backyard grill, I'm not letting her out of my sight.
We like to take Ella to a dog beach on Lake Michigan, a couple of miles from our apartment. The temperature was in the high 80s yesterday, so I tossed Ella in the car late in the afternoon and we headed east to Lincoln Park. Unlike the past few summers,
if poop then scoop
[sung to the tune of "Iron Man" by Black Sabbath] She's my hungry bear She's the little dog with the golden hair She'll just sit and stare Anytime I'm eating and I won't share Nobody feeds her She
█████'s off to Florida through Tuesday for work, and I'm going to do get as much writing done as I can. The only breaks will be for taking care of Ella (who went to the groomer yesterday and now looks like a Muppet) and a special team-
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