L.A.'s magic has let me see every level of the dream..

I had a big Akita, Yoshi, who was fabulous. I loved him. We lost him when he was 12, and I've never been able to replace him. Normally, most people l….

Lucy took a single plain donut from the bag and held it for me to take a bite. Tender and light and still warm from the frying. Not too sugary..

At Lackland Air Force Base, they make an effort to retrain military dogs that suffer from PTSD. It's a lengthy, long process. The treatment is much t….

The relationship between a military working dog and a military dog handler is about as close as a man and a dog can become. You see this loyalty, the….

I began to encounter real-life stories of dogs protecting their wounded or dying or dead handler... or dogs refusing to leave the bodies of the peopl….

People want you to be ordinary..

Los Angeles is the evolutionary edge..

When dogs fulfill their roles they are ecstatically happy..

Some of us find our way with a single light to guide us; others lose themselves even when the star field is as sharp as a neon ceiling. Ethics may no….

Everything we are is anchored in our childhoods. The drama comes in how we deal with it. Are we slaves to our past, or can we rise above it? This is ….

My books come to me in images, and sometimes the image is at the beginning of the book, and sometimes it's simply a flash somewhere in the middle..

What they smell isn't the emotion of fear. What dogs can smell is the changes in a person's skin that suggest fear to the dog, anxiety, the way your ….

I admire people who re-create themselves. And it seems to me that what gives us all the opportunity to be heroic in our own lives is that we work to ….

People want you to be ordinary. They don't like it when people are different. They don't like it when a man soars over their heads while they stand i….

Adults always wonder what to say and how to say it when they're talking to a child. You want to be wise, but all you are is a child yourself in a lar….

Stalking the Angel [Joe]"I could off anybody in this place five times over." [Elvis]"Could you off someone and get away with you here?" [Joe]Head sha….

First and foremost I am a commercial writer, and I hope to entertain people. But having said that, I'm in love with the relationship between humans a….

Pike put down the cat. He slid from Pike's arms like molasses and puddled at his feet..

The sense of smell in all dogs is their primary doorway to the world around them..

My fiction is almost always inspired by a character's need or desire to rise above him- or herself. No one is perfect and some of us have much advers….