A Sentimental Journey

I’m very much looking forward to my upcoming trip to San Diego and Santa Barbara, two of my favorite cities and home to many of my favorite people. And many of my favorite dogs. But visiting my best friend, Clare, and her dog, Archie,  will be bittersweet. It’s almost certainly the last time that Frankie…

The dog days of summer

I’ve focused far too often in recent posts on problems with our San Diego trip: the logistics of getting there, the illogistics of forgetting my camera, the public humiliation of pee collection… For the most part Sirius, the dog star —  believed by the Romans to give off excessive heat in mid-summer, thus the negative…