Dog Blogging

William and his sister "Cookie" in her crate - note that William is the intruder here. Never been a dog person. Appreciate them from afar, don't dislike them. Would not hurt one, but not my bag. Like them, will never love them. All those platitudes. I'm changing slowly thanks to our yellow lab, Cookie. The companionship, love and caring she shows our 3 sons would make me positively heartless not to love her as well. William calls her "my sister." He insists on sitting in her crate when she is sleeping, hugging her and in general being a complete annoyance - but Cookie doesn't mind, she endures him and lays quietly.

I checked out several books by my favorite author, Anna Quindlen, from the library today. One of them is titled "Good Dog. Stay." I'll read anything that lady puts into print. I saw the movie "One True Thing" not long after my mother died. Once I realized the movie was based on a book every bit as wonderful as the movie, I was hooked on the literary stuff Quindlen was offering. Just like the Visine - I'm a junkie for her wordsmithing. In "Good Dog. Stay" she offers a memoir about her 3 children and their labrador retriever, Beau. She also writes about turning 40: My work and my family were in full flower. I was no longer wrestling with the uncertainty of youth and couldn't even imagine the challenges of age. I was fertile but not pregnant, busy but no longer crazed. No one was in diapers, everyone was in school. My hair had not yet begun to gray. My life was in a kind of equipoise. Except for the fact that we still have a little boy in diapers this is pretty close to where I am right now. These truly are the good old days it's just a matter of enjoying them, right along with our family pooch.