In a highly unusual event, five dogs gathered under a large tree in the gated yard that Cadbury and Bear shared with their human family,...

At first glance, Lourdes, France, a small town of less than 15,000 residents in the Pyrenees mountains close by the border between France...

I love being outside this time of year , mused Cadbury in blissfully contented canine inner dialogue, when the weather is warmer, the...

It snowed here the other day.  That in and of itself would not be so remarkable except that it hasn’t snowed appreciably (I learned that...

Thomas Hart Benton "Trial by Jury" Last Friday, December 13, 20204, Jackson County (Missouri) Circuit Court Judge Mark Styles, Jr....

This is not a partisan political essay.  Or at least I don’t intend it to be.   I woke up early this morning with the dreadful feeling...

The weather had been very pleasant until just recently, and Bear and I had been spending long periods of time outside in the side yard...

One very rainy day recently, Bear and I were comfortably spending some quiet time together, warm and dry in the room in our humans’ house...

Warning: Some sadness ahead. Logan is gone, and Bear and I are left to carry on without him. Logan warned me that this day would come,...

I’d never experienced anything like it.  Even Logan had to admit that, while he had seen the phenomenon before, this time it was...

This coming Sunday, January 7, 2024, most Western Christian churches will celebrate the Feast of the Epiphany, commemorating the visit of...

Logan and I have come to notice that, just about this time every year, the humans in our family start thinking back on what had happened...

It was winter. Late at night. Perhaps a year or two ago. I was in my den, in my favorite chair, warmed by an open fire in the...

Logan and I are exhausted. The cause of our collective fatigue is a black and white puppy named Bear. Apparently, he is now “our” Bear,...

Like many, I have been watching developments on our college campuses with dismay. I wish that I had some way to warn those students who...

Simon Edgar Fitzpatrick (1873-1959) was my grandfather's brother and partner in their father's Plattsburgh, New York, family construction...

At the conclusion of every Mass in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport in Fairfield County, Connecticut, the congregation recites...

Logan and I are no longer the sole objects of canine-directed attention in our family. We have been joined by a puppy named Bear. At...

We have news. Last week we brought a little puppy into our family. He is a bi-color (black and white) Australian Shepherd and his name...

There once was a countryside in which a flock of sheep lived happily and comfortably under the supervision of a succession of fairly...