My Family Was All Police And Hard

I Write Characters And Stories That Move Me, And I Write From The Heart.

At Lackland Air Force Base, They Make An Effort To Retrain Military Dogs That Suffer From Ptsd. It's A Lengthy, Long Process. The Treatment Is Much The Same As It Would Be For People, But It's A Difficult Road Back.

I Began To Encounter Real-life Stories Of Dogs Protecting Their Wounded Or Dying Or Dead Handler... Or Dogs Refusing To Leave The Bodies Of The People They Were Bonded To, Sitting In Cemeteries For Days Or Sometimes Weeks. You Find These Stories Endlessly.

I Had A Big Akita, Yoshi, Who Was Fabulous. I Loved Him. We Lost Him When He Was 12, And I've Never Been Able To Replace Him. Normally, Most People Lose A Pet And Get Another And Keep Going On. But It Just Felt Wrong To Me; It Felt Disloyal.

People Want You To Be Ordinary. They Don't Like It When People Are Different. They Don't Like It When A Man Soars Over Their Heads While They Stand In The Dirt. People Hate You When You're Special; It Reminds Them Of Everything That They Aren't.