Dog Down!

When you don’t let sleeping dogs lie, they give you a crazy look.

By the Actors’ Table

Today we strolled around the Heartland Shakespeare Festival grounds during lunch. There is a huge white dog there that Pepper desperately wants to play with, but then she gets distracted by the need to destroy plants of all sorts. A couple of photos below have examples of nature rearranging and pestering by Pepper.     …

Road Trips with Large Dogs

Summer is starting which mostly means that my fridge will begin to feature pitchers of lemonade and tonsĀ of salad makings. It also means road trips. I take a ton of road trips over the course of a year and I like to take Pepper when it’s possible. For any of you who have traveled with…

My Dog Cries for Bottles

My dog Pepper is a little obsessed with plastic bottles. If a plastic bottle appears in my home she will stare at it and cry without end. https://instagram.com/p/2J5gtPySy7/ The bottles don’t even have to have been offered to her. Simply seeing them on the counter is enough to make her sit, stare, and whine for…