Having a loving relationship with a pet is one of the great pleasures in life. When we are happy, they share our joy. When we feel the need to play, they are eager participants in our games. When we need some quiet time, they are content to lie beside us and share our dreams. And, when we [...]

Very often in life, we are prone to pass judgment based on hearsay and opinion. So when my daughter, Elizabeth, announced that she was about to purchase a Chow Chow puppy, my reaction was anything but positive, or encouraging. I expressed my concern to Elizabeth about purchasing a breed of dog with a less than [...]

The other day, my mother, who had recently moved to Colorado, unearthed several boxes of wonderful old photos. I was looking through them over coffee, and one in particular caught my eye and made me laugh out loud. It wasn’t the picture per se that made me laugh, but rather the story behind the lovely horse, [...]

My humans had gone on a special shopping trip, leaving me in charge, as usual. I was sitting dozing by the front gate, when, suddenly, I became aware of a stranger. A thin, scrawny dog, who was not so much walking as he was staggering towards me. “Please could I just sit here for [...]

In our lifetime, many of us will experience things that have a profound and lasting effect on us, events so surreal that they test our ability to separate fact from fiction. I had such an experience when a cat named Lady Angel (April, as I originally called her) entered my life. I wrote of that [...]

My name is Mr. West. I was born sometime in 2005 or perhaps it was 2006. I do not really know. What I do know is that in those days I used to have a loving family and a collar of my own with my name on it. I was told that I am a [...]

The first time I saw April, as I’d come to name her, it was early this past January. She was nothing but a blur darting from within the cat feeding station I call “The Hovel” and into the blackness of the night. For the next two months, I would catch a glimpse of her, both [...]

I shared this story recently with some friends and thought, perhaps, my website visitors might enjoy it, as well. When my daughter, Elizabeth, began her search for a college to attend, we made a trip out West to check out the Scripts Institute at the University of Southern California at San Diego. At that point in [...]

Well, if you are breathing at all you know that the United States, as we know it, is changed…big time. The American people have spoken at the polls with a resounding voice, and have, overnight, reversed the balance of power in America. Now, it remains to be seen if the Democratic members of this “do [...]

For years, the United Nations has been called incompetent, irrelevant, corrupt, anti-Semetic, and that’s just for starters. More recently, it earned a new distinction, that of the Comedy Club of international politics. The opening act being the President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad, who offered a soft shoe dance around his previous statements, which include questioning the [...]