Last weekend, my husband and I planted some flowers in the front of our house, spread a little mulch, and did some sprucing up. (What? You expected anything less from a couple of suburban dorks?) We pulled our truck up to the front of the house and were about to make our first trip […]
dog walking
Sit, Dog-Sit
I’ve decided that dog-sitting is the perfect thing for a person without a dog to do. It’s also a fine thing for a person with a dog, too, but only because dogs are concurrent: If you have one dog and you dog-sit another dog, your work doesn’t double. It’s like serving two jail terms […]
What Happens in Key West is Too Uneventful to Go Anywhere Else Anyway
I am reporting live from Key West, where I’m on a Thanksgiving vacation. You know, the traditional all-American island, tropical, step-over-the-drunks-in-the-street, Key West vacation. This is a nice vacation for a middle-aged woman, her husband, daughter and mother-in-law. As it turns out, you don’t have to drink yourself blind when you’re in Key West. […]
White Trash
I was walking my dog yesterday, early morning, and it was trash day, so we were dodging the garbage and recycling cans at the curb, which were covering up extremely valuable dog pee smells. People are so rude, to put their trash cans over top of urine-soaked grass. But they do. Even on my […]
My Dog and Her Walks
It’s getting to be where I hate to walk our dog. Because we have no back yard – and when I say ‘no back yard,’ I don’t mean just a tiny patch of grass or not a big back yard or less than a half acre; I mean no back yard. Within our back fence […]