Hope you had as good a Thanksgiving holiday as we did. We mostly hunkered down at home, and I cooked a lot. I did not make Thanksgiving dinner—we went to some generous friends’ for that. But I did make some chicken broth from scratch, and used part of that to make some yummy beef barley […]

My Seeing Eye dog Whitney and I took an Amtrak train to Central Illinois Monday to give a presentation to an animal sciences class at the University of Illinois. While there in Urbana, we looked in on retired Seeing Eye dog Hanni. Her human companions Nancy and Steven report The 16-year-old star of Hanni and […]

Hope you had as good a Thanksgiving holiday as we did. We mostly hunkered down at home, and I cooked a lot. I did not make Thanksgiving dinner—we went to some generous friends’ for that. But I did make some chicken broth from scratch, and used part of that to make some yummy beef barley […]

When I woke up the day after the 2016 presidential election, I couldn’t hear out of my left ear. Days later the infection spread to my right ear as well. I couldn’t hear at all. The timing was uncanny. Maybe it was a gift from the Gods. My ears plugged up the very day the […]

I had an idea to round up some of the more thoughtful bits of post-election reading I’ve come across. When I told Beth about my idea, she replied, in her infinite wisdom, “Don’t! People are getting all that from all sides.” Doh. So, instead, I’m simply going to give thanks for longtime friends. The ones who’ve […]