The Lesson We Have Yet To Learn

Dogs Really Are Perfect Soldiers. They Are Brave And Smart; They Can Smell Through Walls, See In The Dark, And Eat Army Rations Without Complaint.

Why, I Wonder, Should The Popularity Of A News Story Matter To Me? Does It Mean It's A Good Story Or Just A Seductive One?

In My Perfect World, We Would Establish Perhaps Four National Zoos Of Unimpeachable Quality And Close The Rest Of Them.

I Work At Home, In The Country, And Days Will Go By When, Except For My Husband And Son And The Occasional Ups Man, The Only Sentient Creatures That See Me Are My Chickens And Turkeys.

When I Was A Kid, Phone Calls Were A Premium Commodity; Only The Very Coolest Kids Had A Phone Line Of Their Own, And Long-distance Phone Calls Were Made After Eleven, When The Rates Went Down, Unless You Were Flamboyant With Your Spending. Then Phone Calls Became As Cheap As Dirt And As Constant As Rain, And I Was On The Phone All The Time.