I used to be really good at fixing things around the house. Apparently Elvis has left the building when it comes to home improvements. I s...

The only thing worse than a sick dog is a dog who doesn't realize he's sick. I decided today that the best way to keep Dash calm a...

Dash is back home again. After all he's been through this week, he's acting amazingly normal. Too normal perhaps. When the cancer...

I got a phone call form Dash's surgeon at about 3 PM this afternoon. He told me that the procedure went as planned. Surgeons are diffe...

Dash goes in for surgery tomorrow morning. The CAT Scan was fairly conclusive. The bad news is that he does have thyroid cancer. The good...

False start day. We got up extra early this morning, so we could negotiate feeding one dog while the other was fasting. Usually, this inv...

Dot and Dash had a great day. Our mild Springlike weather continues, making it possible to give the dogs several long walks, in addition t...

Where did today go? It seems like I got up and all of the sudden, it's time to go to bed again. I certainly didn't do that much. T...

It was an absolutely normal Friday. Normal is good. There was no dog crisis. There was no impossible deadline crisis. There was no crisis ...

OK. We're making progress. I've scheduled a consultation with an oncologist first thing Monday morning. After this initial evaluat...

I feel sick to my stomach. The pathology report came back today and Dash has some sort of thyroid tumor. We don't know yet whether the...

Another stressful day. We've known for some time that Dash has a lipoma in his neck. These fatty tumors are very common in dogs and mo...

Yup. It did turn out to be a cleaning day. I kind of figured it would. I spent the day doing a host of little things that I've been put...

Dash is a smart dog. When he was having his incontinence problems recently, he learned that if he scratched at the back door with his paw,...

I got a pleasant surprise this morning. I received a publisher's proof of my entry in the upcoming SXSW Cookbook. I was amazed. My rec...

To a dog, Valentine's Day is just like any other day, except that sometimes you get dressed up in silly costumes, and other times you ...

Dot is OK. After spending the day getting a series of Barium x-rays to determine if her digestive system was still functioning properly, t...