Sometimes a story happens when you least expect it. Like on Monday when I was in line at Whole Foods and a real live dinosaur came up behind me with a shopping cart full of bacon. Like a pro, I whipped out my notepad and borrowed a pencil from the guy behind the checkout. A [...]
There I was sitting in the Vancouver airport on the week before Thanksgiving. My flight to Quebec was delayed and watching Planes, Trains and Automobiles on Netflix wasn’t helping my anxiety. There was an interview waiting for me on the other side of Canada but it didn’t look like I was getting there anytime soon. [...]
I’m hosting Thanksgiving this year. This came as a shock to me—totally unexpected—but it’s my favorite holiday and I can handle it. My mom mistakenly decided to volunteer my house without checking her yoga schedule first. Then she discovered, a little too late, that she’s teaching Thanksgiving morning. Determined to turn crisis into opportunity, I [...]
@maverick_poser I’d been keeping a low profile in the office until HOWLoween was finally over. The boss was asking me to cover all the costumes gone wrong, but eventually I put my paw down and explained that I was having a severe allergic reaction to the holiday—probably, I added, in connection to the [...]
It had been one of those weeks. You know the kind—all business—no time to nap after breakfast, lunch and dinner. I was sleep deprived and my garden hadn’t been tended to in days. I almost thought about calling Jose the Gardener to touch up the roses. Thankfully, even in my stupor I realized that that [...]
First and foremost, I’m a gardener. Groundskeeping is my passion and it just comes naturally to me. Yeah, I do what I can for the blogosphere and enjoy my status as an up-and-coming “foodie” but, truth is, nothing compares to the sun on my fur and dirt in my paws. So it was as much [...]
That time I didn’t have to research Sluggo® Slug Bait and interview local snails about their plight was definitely a career high for me. Oh and that year I went to do a story on Poodles in Paris, but my flight somehow got rerouted to a bratwurst festival in Bavaria was also a win. But [...]
I am not a garden hose addict. I’m a connoisseur of fine plastic tubing that happens to be manufactured for the purpose of watering grass and shrubs. There’s a big difference. But try explaining that to my mom or, even worse, my boss at the office. It started last Friday morning following an unfriendly altercation [...]
So my boss recently decided he needed to lose a few lbs/kgs. Having just gone through my mom’s tumultuous sugar detox, I was not looking forward to another authority figure on a diet telling me what to do all day. Yesterday when I got into the office he was doing one-pawed pushups on his desk…or [...]
After taking some time off to hang with me this summer, I encouraged my mom to start teaching yoga again. Like most of my selfless acts, it was just the right thing to do. Coincidentally, having your mom lurk around the office every woofin’ day for three months has its drawbacks. Don’t get me wrong—she’s [...]