On being a dog walking billionaire

Dog walking billionaire

The billionaire and her car, aka her bundle buggy. Photo by Ann McBride.

Back in the day, I was watching The Young and the Restless, and Victoria, who was pregnant, said to Brad, the presumptive father, "I don't care if our child grows up to be a doctor ...

Keep Reading >



The Pushkin Papers: One

Pushkin looks sidewise

Arrival

I walk into the apartment with Pushkin in a small purple crate tucked under my arm.  At eight weeks, she's got that rank puppy smell.  Notley and McCracken take a deep whiff: very exciting, hysteria-inducing, even. The two hour, take-the-edge off walk they got earlier in the day may ...

Keep Reading >



Quirks and idiotsyncrasies

"Every dog is in certain respects like all other dogs, like some other dogs, and like no other dog."

- Adapted from Brian R. Little's Me, Myself and Us: who in turn adapted from Clyde Kluckhohn's and Henry A. Murray's Personality in Nature, Society and Culture.

Notley's quirk

One of Notley's ...

Keep Reading >