Sophie McHounderson died Sunday after a long battle with doorbells and vacuum cleaners. (Her body was also riddled with cancer, but that didnt get her down much.) She spent her final days eating McDonalds cheeseburgers, singing harmonies with fire engines, and burying stuff in the yard. She wants her brother Otis to know that if he digs that shit up… Read more →
Category: Me Talking About My Dogs
Sophie and Me.
I was a wee college student in New York City when we brought her home on the subway in the first week of February 2002. She was an 8 week old puppy who’d been abandoned along with the rest of her litter in the Bronx. She wasn’t anything like what I thought we’d be adopting that day but a few… Read more →
Dammit Life, Stop Distracting Me From My Blog.
So, this happened this week — The818.com was called one of the Top Ten Parenting Blogs on the whole Internet by Disney Interactive and my face was the graphic for their massive list making the whole thing kind of weird and surreal. If you’re just finding me from the Babble List, here are some of my favorite parenting posts for… Read more →
I’m Obsessed.
Who knew there were so many ways to preserve your pet’s likeness for posterity? For sources and more great pet artists, click here… Read more →
Life Amongst The Beasts
Today on Babble I posted a collection of Twelve of the Top Dog Friendly Beaches Across The US. Did I find one near you? If not let me know so I can track one down or add your favorite. Also in the world of Animalia? Doggles make me laugh every time. Here’s a video of a Lion getting his teeth… Read more →
Stinkerbell; A Study
Let Sleeping Dogs Lie
I almost never do. They’re practically begging for snuggles. Read more →
Pack Lyfe
This project is quickly starting to feel like the “how many angles and combinations can I get of these dogs?” experiment. But…it’s also…kind of just…my life. …here a dog, there a dog, every where a dog dog… Except in reality there’s audio. (Spoiler alert: They’re tone deaf.) {Unrelated: I love this post on BlogHer suggesting an album to buy on… Read more →
Equal Opportunity
Maybe I should have resolved to take pictures of things other than my dogs. He’s a handsome devil though, isn’t he? Read more →
Nothin’ But A Hound Dog
I was trying to snap a picture of the oldest member of the menagerie yawning. I’m not so quick on the shutter so I got this shot instead. Unrelated (or, a little related?) on Babble today I rambled a bit about what I hope to get out of a year of photo taking. Read more →