Cadiz is my horse.  I bought her in the spring of 2008, twenty five years after I quit riding to go to college.  Lots of life happened in...

Sky is our parakeet.  He is another of my middle daughter’s pets.  I call him “he”, but really I have no idea what sex he is though I...

Sugar is our eight year old grey cat.  We adopted her from Paws as a kitten, almost choosing a livelier black one until my middle...

Cocoa is my older daughter’s bunny.  He has followed a long line of furry creatures to our house behind this particular child.  It began...

Buddy is my youngest daughter’s Russian tortoise that escaped last summer while she was at camp, on my watch.  We got Buddy for her 11th...

I will have to interrupt my character sketches momentarily to describe a recent evening en famille.  We sat down to dinner in our usual...

Charlie is our year and a half old corgi puppy that burst into our lives unexpectedly the summer before last.  I had no plans to get...

Hank is our black lab.  He is the best looking lab I’ve ever seen.  I’m not bragging, seriously, my husband calls him our male model....

Before I launch into the myriad moments of insanity a la Dr. Doolittle that occur regularly in my house, I will give you some background...