The Mommy Wars flared up again last week over Democratic party strategist Hilary Rosen’s ham-handed quip that stay-at-home-mother-of-five Ann Romney had “never worked a day in her life.” I don’t have a dog in that fight anymore (the youngest of my three kids is about to graduate high school), but lately I’ve pricked an [...]
The title says it all!
I stumbled on this utterly delightful painting at the Kingston Gallery in Boston’s South End. The artist, Joan Baldwin, has captured a “decisive moment” in the tradition of Henri Cartier-Bresson. She told me it was inspired by a visit to a park in Eastham on outer [...]
My dog Eddie and I recently ventured out to an area of Cambridge that I’ve heard about for years, but never visited: North Point (or “NorthPoint”). I’ve lived in Cambridge for almost two decades, and I used to work in real estate, so I knew big changes were afoot in the Lechmere area, [...]
Guest post by Amy Campbell
The longer I work with dogs, the more I come to understand how culture and language exert a tight grasp on the way we care for, understand and train our dogs. Over 78 million dogs live in American households, but it’s only relatively recently that our culture has begun to [...]
As a dog blogger and an English major, how could I resist a book entitled, Shaggy Muses: The Dogs Who Inspired Virginia Woolf, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edith Wharton and Emily Brontë? I mean, this book has my name all over it, except, that is, where I was wish it was—on the title page! [...]
Last Friday morning I was outside my house, saying good-bye to a friend who had visited, when a small white dog ran by on the sidewalk across the street, without an owner following or even a leash trailing behind. The little dog was trotting at a good clip and heading right for busy Fresh Pond [...]
When a friend told me about DOGTV, I assumed it was a joke. A new cable TV channel with programs for — not about, but for — dogs?! The Onion must be jerking our chain again, I thought. But no, DOGTV (billed as, what else, “a new breed of television”) is for real, a new digital media entrant in the race to grab a piece of the $50 billion dollar pet industry.
As every superhero knows, wearing a body-hugging unitard will make you feel more confident, even capable of leaping tall buildings in a single bound. Now, thanks to the invention of a nifty garment called the Thundershirt, dogs can feel as brave as superheroes — or at least less likely to cower under the bed during [...]
I’m proud to be today’s guest blogger on Plan B Nation, a wonderfully enlightening blog, whose subtitle “living creatively in challenging times” is a trick we would all do well to master. Plan B Nation is the brainchild of my friend Amy Gutman, who used to live in Cambridge and has a cat. [...]
A Blog for Dog People in the Cambridge, Mass. Area
Fairy DogParents to the Rescue!
Have you ever wished for a fairy godmother to get you through a rough patch? (If you haven’t, then congratulations; you’ve led an exceptionally charmed life!) Well, some dog owners could use a little extra help, too, but until recently, there was no one to call upon to wave a magic wand. That’s why Marlo [...]