Engineering for Cats by Mac Delaney Workman Publishing , copyright 2018 This is such a fun how-to book if you like cats, or you like to build things, and especially if you like both. There are ten projects designed to improve the quality of life for your cat or cats, and thus your own, if […]
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Dogs Rough & Smooth by Lucy Dawson, foreword by Susan Orlean Harper Design, 2016 This is a facsimile edition of celebrated British illustrator Lucy Dawson’s 1937 classic collection of highly detailed and loveable drawings of dogs, complete with a cloth spine and ribbon marker. Lucy Dawson was a preeminent British illustrator in the 1930s and […]
Roberta Baker was a saint. It is incredible to me how little I appreciated that when we were working together. As the song says, “I was a young and callow fellow.” Which sounds nicer than saying I was a jerk, which I pretty much was. My wife tried working with me for a while and […]
I didn’t spend a lot of time with Earl Russell, but he left me with a profound influence that I didn’t appreciate at the time. I could have spent a lot more time with him, and learned a lot more if I hadn’t been so lazy. Mr. Russell was an older gentleman who was a […]
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Here’s another story about someone who enriched my life. I lived in Alvin’s front yard for 12 weeks, one week per year for 12 years. There is an old story called “The Shirt of a Happy Man”. Once upon a time there was a mighty emperor whose only daughter fell gravely ill. Physicians, […]
Some thoughts and comments about what happens when pets and cars collide.
How and why dogs become overweight. It may not be as simple as you think.