Ok, so the title of this post is a tad deceptive: Sigmund Freud’s talking cure never went entirely to the dogs. (Update: And, as has been called to my attention, it’s also a tad confusing: this post has nothing to do with curing barking in dogs.) But the father of psychoanalysis’s close relationship with the…
Dogs & Psychoanalysis, Part 1: Sigmund Freud’s Case of Puppy Love
You knew it was just a question of time, didn’t you, before I found a way to connect my two interests, my current and future projects? You’d be amazed at how easy it was! To recap: I recently discovered that my great uncle, Siegmund Kornmehl, had a kosher butcher shop in the same apartment building…
A Shift in Perspective: Learning from Duh! Moments
We’re less than a week into the New Year and I’ve already had three major “Duh!” moments, realizations that I’ve been missing the obvious in spectacular ways. I’ve been looking for zebras when there were horses right in front of my face. But rather than slapping myself upside my head in private, I thought I’d…
Spam Saturday: Rattling Great Taboo Content, Designer Scuttlebutt, Woh!
At the beginning of this month I posted Spam Saturday: Amazing Products, Thrilling Occasions, Thanks-a-Mundo! Perhaps I shouldn’t have been surprised that the blog was a spam magnet, drawing a lot of magnificent examples of the genre. Meta-spam, I called it; Amy from GoPetFriendly — my Pet Blogger Challenge co-host — dubbed it spam squared.…
Year End Musings and Newsings
It’s a funny time, the week between Christmas and New Year’s — even for people like me who don’t really celebrate the holidays, except by drinking too much eggnog and gorging on cookies and fudge. It’s limbo, not quite out with the old nor in with the new. I always look forward to this as…
And a Yappy New Year!
Have Yourself a Cute Yorkie Puppy Christmas!
One of the highlights of my blog this year was hosting the Great Yorkie Bark-Off and, especially, collaborating with two creative dog lovers, Alana of Dexter’s Ruff Life and Luciana of Gangs of New Yorkie. We all worked hard and had a blast, but I know Luciana would agree that Alana was the talent behind…
Wordless Wednesday, Chanukah Edition
This really doesn’t need much explanation, except for a few things: I did not buy the fuzzy dreidl for Frankie. It was a gift from his early days. He doesn’t much like it. It is too large for him. It is not squeaky. Rather, it plays a Children of the Corn creepy version of the…
Wordless Wednesday: 12/14/2011
A year earlier… These photos, taken by my friend John Peterson, were sent to me with this information only: “My neighbor’s dogs, peering out on the world from under their gate.” The first two were taken a few weeks ago, in November, the last two a year earlier. Suggestions for titles, anyone? Hidden huskies, crouching…
Spam Saturday: Amazing Products, Thrilling Occasions, Thanks-a-Mundo!
If you’re like most bloggers, you make a quick dip into your spam filter to see if any real people’s comments are trapped there, and then delete the rest without paying much attention. Don’t be so hasty. You’re missing out on some powerful mood lifters. It’s not just the amusingly mangled language, generated, I would…