If you are a dog lover but you were disgusted by the details of Tulip's season and the smearing of Vaseline on her vulva, I think Ackerley's point is that you don't love dogs and probably shouldn't own one.I don't like dogs, but I enjoyed this. He has found himself in a bizarre situation; a huge ...
When she didn't come back, we looked in the shadows of all the bushes. She wasn't anywhere. In fact, while we peered into the night for anything moving, the plain grew so still it was almost frightening—no animal called, not even the nightjar, who had kept up his ugly shouting long after I had fr...
By then they were raising perennial plants instead of chickens and the plants didn’t need their constant attention, so they could travel. I could not have been happier, as the reason for their offer was to help me take care of my children—Stephanie, age four, and John, age two—when I was out in t...