My kids love Failblog, which simply shows a photo of something gone horribly, or even just marginally, wrong. It could be a goat twirling by its horns on a wire fence, an electrical box in the side of a shower stall, or an unintentionally rude headline. I would be the perfect person to work on [...]
Meet the three new breeds that have just been accepted into the American Kennel Club, shown here with Wayne Ferguson, president of the Kennel Club of Philadelphia. From left: Irish Red and White Setter, Pyrenean Shepherd, and Norwegian Buhund. Kind of a European Union of dogdom. Actually, the Norwegian Buhund is hardly a “new” breed [...]
For the 15th year in a row, Chris and I are promoting the Kennel Club of Philadelphia Dog Shows. This is a really old tradition in Philadelphia, dating back to 1879. I should know – I wrote the history of the shows that we used in our press kit. This show has a “benched” format, meaning [...]
So Ian landed in Barcelona and collected his luggage, uneventfully, but then the driver who was supposed to pick him up wasn’t there. Hours passed. Despite the challenges of solving this problem in a foreign land without a cell phone, Ian did indeed figure out a solution and ultimately get to his lodgings. Everyone has a [...]
Ian spent Saturday getting ready for his flight to Barcelona. He hung out on the porch with Chris and me for a while. During an important lecture on avoiding pickpockets, he wandered a few steps away, tuning us out, focusing elsewhere, which was irritating. It turns out he had seen a cat run under the porch. Putting [...]
In an update on the game of tag, Emily and I are now “it” – having been tagged by our friends at Life In Pencil, Elizabeth and Anne. Thanks, you two pencil-necked Mizzou geeks! It’s my turn today, so I’ll go first. We are supposed to tell 10 secrets about ourselves…which I am interpreting as little-known [...]
National Parks are on my mind, what with Ken Burns’ new documentary airing on PBS. It’s true, the concept of preserving the most phenomenal land in this nation for the people, for all time, is a brilliantly democratic concept. This seemed like a timely moment to share one of my favorite photos of all time. Not the [...]
The power of a simple punctuation mark should not be underestimated. Yesterday was National Punctuation Day. I celebrated by going back to high school, where I proofread the syllabus from each of Hugh’s classes. Could there be any word more confusing to English writers than its as a possessive? Let me answer my own question: no. So [...]
Kudos to Emily for her exquisite timing of the Waldorf Astoria Presidential Suite post yesterday! I had never really heard of the luxe accommodations until she got bumped up to them last week. Yesterday, in perfect synch with her post, the Suite was all over the news because President Obama had checked in. Sadly, too [...]
I am a person of color. If the color is the FLESH crayon found in the old 64 box. Everyone in the world is a person of size. Most of us have jeans of blue. Some individuals are persons of interest. And OK, the five folks in our family are people of no color. We admit it, we [...]
