Dog love is not the special realm of childhood or of boyhood, no matter what the movies keep telling us. It is highly significant, I think, that at b….

The dogs in our lives, the dogs we come to love and who (we fervently believe) love us in return, offer more than fidelity, consolation, and companio….

If any era should be aware of the temptations to rewrite history, it is our own..

Well named, Quotology contains everything you always wanted to know about quotations, quoters, quotees, quotation books, 'quoox' (quotations out of c….

We do literature a real disservice if we reduce it to knowledge or to use, to a problem to be solved. If literature solves problems, it does so by it….

A study conducted by the State University of New York at Buffalo Medical School suggested that in times of stress a dog is likely to be more help in ….

The dog becomes the repository of those model human properties that we have cynically ceased to find among humans. Where today can we find the full p….

Jargon marks the place where thinking has been. It becomes a kind of macro, to use a computer term: a way of storing a complicated sequence of thinki….

They offer, if we are wise enough or simple enough to take it, a model for what it means to give your heart with little thought of return. Both power….

If you have a dog, you will most likely outlive it; to get a dog is to open yourself to profound joy and, prospectively, to equally profound sadness..