Second dog syndrome. That’s what they call it at the Seeing Eye. Graduates return after retiring their first dog, and the second dog is never as good. The new dog goes after other dogs. The first one never did that. The first dog always went right to the door you were looking for, never peed […]

The plane slipped on the runway. Mike says no, but I swear I felt the plane skid when we landed in Chicago yesterday. Other than that, our flight home from New Orleans was fairly uneventful. O’Hare was crowded, of course, but everyone seemed pretty cheerful. I guess folks were happy to finally be getting home. […]

…just for this one moment. Eliot Kamenitz, a photographer for the New Orleans Times-Picayune, came to my appearance at the Latter Library. His photos are terrific by all accounts, and you can see one of his best — and the whole gallery — at Nola.com. To my blind readers: this is a photo taken by […]