I had to go away: first for a weekend, and then for…
November 15, 2021
Imagine you have just turned 18, and have had a rough life,…
July 26, 2022
M said Sammy was okay with other animals, and it’s true. He…
June 24, 2022
September 8, 2020 | Sammy Stories | 1 Comment
Theo and I decided to take Sammy for a walk around the pond. According to Sammy, walks have a definite script for how they ought to be conducted. First, you show him the leash; preferably when he is in his safe basket. Notice the look on his face. It is easy to read his mind:I…
August 12, 2020 | News | No Comments
M sent two pathetic looking “bunnies” with us when Sammy came to be with us. They were his favourites. The purple one was for sleeping with. The white and turquoise one was to beat on and chew. It had lost most of its stuffing and looked ready to fall apart.It took a long time for…
August 12, 2020 | Sammy Stories | No Comments
August 6, 2020 | News | 2 Comments
July 3, 2020 | Sammy Stories | 3 Comments
It is autumn here and our backyard is filled with leaves. Sir Poops-a-lot was doing his thing, happy as a clam. (Why do we say clams are happy? How do we know?) In any case, he was not in spook-mode. After he did his business, he did the next doggie-thing, which is utterly useless, and…
July 3, 2020 | Sammy Stories | No Comments
There was no help for it. I had a writer’s conference in Calgary to attend for the weekend, and Sammy had to be alone with Daddy. We were not at all sure that this would go well. We suspected there might be a few hiccups.We were right.Theo had closed the bedroom door so he couldn’t…
June 1, 2020 | Humour, Short Stories | No Comments
“Amos,” Boris said. “We’ve done this the same way so many times and we are not having the results we want.” “We’ve always done it that way before,” said Amos, being one of the usual spies. “Yes, Comrade, we have. That is my point. And we keep getting the same result: nothing. It’s time to…
Balancing on a ladder between the dirt and sky, the little boy looks up. He sees his father with the men, his smiling, sweating face urging him on.“I’m going to the top,” he cries and takes another rung.He is excited and just a little scared. His eyes are on his father’s arms, stretched out to…
April 27, 2020 | Humour | 2 Comments
Who can take vampires seriously? Think about the mechanics of it all for a moment. There they are, with staring intensity, mesmerizing their prey into feverish delight. In moments, the victims are panting to sacrifice their own life-blood.Really?Okay, presumably they can’t resist. The vampire is too powerful–yada, yada, yada.But lets look at the stats. Vampire…
