Was I Crazy

to let Isabel ride in the backseat with me on the loooong drive home?

Aw, but don’t she look happy. . . ?
She didn’t like sitting back there in doggy prison. I am such a sucker for sweet puppy eyes.
Unfortunately, she got so matted on this trip that the groomer wants to shave her! Poor girl. [...]

Cornered

Yesterday, I was walking at an outdoor mall with my husband after attending a poetry reading, enjoying a gorgeous spring day, when two guys approached—one with a big fuzzy mike and the other hidden behind a video camera. An introvert’s greatest fear suddenly leap-frogged into my ordinary day. I frowned at them. But the camera [...]