I am a poodle lady. A Standard Poodle lady. Since 1989 I've had a total of nine. I adore them. No dog I've ever known has burrowed into...

The grass made me stop. The little feathery meadow grew in our Arboretum garden. It lay in a rectangle of sunlight and threw a hook of...

I can’t imagine a house without a piano. One was always in my home: my mom’s piano as a child, a pretentious grand from my first...

You may know me best through what I love. I cherish my husband and Standard Poodles, all my friends, all my neighbors. I adore the...

I will try to not complain about gas prices. Yes they are absurdly high. Unless I consider the worldwide network of oil commodities I...

I traveled a couple hours east of here last Autumn. I went to pick up some baby Poodles. I soon left cities behind and was in wilderness....

I bought a fern last month. It was wrapped in a tube of cellophane with only the tips of the leaves showing. It seemed mysterious,...