September 17th, 2024 | Boston, General, Pets, Society at Large
People with dogs in the family lead fairly regular lives. Even more than the need to get to work and school on time, to show up at medical appointments, and get dinner underway at a decent hour, we are governed by the routines of pet bladders and bowels. Even the most...
September 5th, 2024 | Boston, General, Pets, the world and Mother Nature
Brophy Park up at the corner is Grand Central Station between six-thirty and seven-thirty in the morning and eight and nine in the evening. Prime time for dog walkies. That’s our schedule too. In general I try to make each walk a little different, and that’s easy...
August 26th, 2024 | Books for Children, Boston, Family, General, Pets, Shopping
One of my criteria in looking for a condo in Boston was that they building be “pet friendly.” I didn’t have a pet, but I might want one. Now I do have a pet, and her name is “Ping.” The Story About Ping Yes, she is the namesake of Ping in The Story About Ping by...
October 4th, 2023 | Europe, Family, General, Matters of the Spirit, Memory, Pets, Time Passes, Travel
Douglas Keister published Stories in Paris: A Field Guide to Paris Cemeteries and Their Residents in 2013 and I don’t remember when I bought it. I must have encountered it in the travel pages of The New York Times. but I don’t recall. Cemeteries in Distant...
March 19th, 2014 | Gardens and Gardening, General, Holidays, Memory, Pets, Time Passes
When I was about twelve or thirteen, I read Sterling North’s Rascal, a memoir of a year during World War One and the raising of a baby raccoon. North was much the youngest of four siblings; his sister Theodora was the practical member of the family and the one who...
January 22nd, 2014 | General, Memory, Pets, the world and Mother Nature, Travel
To experience this kind of luxury is to feel also the needling of guilt. Our cabin is made immaculate by our personal gremlin, the steward Erik, and someone hangs in a little linen bag several pages of articles from the New York Times (including the crossword puzzle)...