“Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.” — Groucho Marx
We lost Puppy on Friday.
The house is now too quiet, and I can barely bring myself to walk downstairs into what was her domain. Saturday afternoon I could have sworn that I heard her sit up on her couch to peer over the back as I made my way down the steps. She [...]
To explain my extended absence, I offer this, cross-posted from my more personal site.
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So.
I’ll admit to putting off writing this for as long as possible, because putting the last couple of weeks into words is going to force me to mentally relive it, and I’m not thrilled with the idea.
Basically, the short version [...]
Barely three months after her last chemotherapy appointment, the Puppy’s lymphoma has come out of remission. Technically, she was in remission for eight or nine months, as her chemo treatments worked remarkably quickly. It’s still not as long as we would have hoped.
Since she’s not been off of the Wisconsin Protocol [...]
[cross-posted to this site's 'about' page.]
I have a massive pile of books in my room. They all sit there, unread, while I go and, well, buy more books. I know it’s a problem, so I tried to do something about it. For 2008 I resolved to read every single book that I [...]
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