Tagged with Laverne and Shirley
Several years ago, at the height of my nasty divorce, my in-laws called to say they were bringing me something. Naturally, I was a little nervous. They’re nice people, but my mother-in-law had once remarked to me about my husband, “He’s your problem now.” Since they weren’t exactly thrilled that I was retracting that responsibility, [...]
You know the old saying about even a blind dog sometimes being able to find a bone? The meaning, of course, is that every once in a while life throws a little good our way, so chin up. Be happy. See the glass as half full. At my house, we’ve changed the saying, though. It goes [...]
This past week, my home looked like a scene from The Exorcist. My kid woke up New Year’s Day with a nasty stomach bug that acted suspiciously like what would happen if a 16-year-old boy had a celebratory shot or two with his older sister. But after about the fifth time he puked, I realized [...]
When I was a child, my parents read to my brother, sister, and me every evening from a giant book called Character Sketches that used animals to illustrate Christian values. I came across that old tome recently and was a little surprised to find that a book about eternal values illustrated with something as [...]
My fascination with dachshunds began when I was a toddler. As my mother tells it, I watched Disney’s The Ugly Dachshund. Although it’s about a great dane who thinks he’s a dachshund, my two-year-old self thought the dachshunds stole the show. “I want one of those dogs!” I insisted, and nothing else would do. They [...]
Laverne and Shirley, my dyspeptic dachshunds, are again in a bit of a snit. It all started with the Weinergate Scandal this week. Representative Anthony Weiner, a Democrat from New York’s Ninth Congressional District, allegedly sent a lewd picture of himself to a college girl via his Twitter account. Of course, a powerful man named [...]
Yep, I’ve still got it. Late last night, I was driving home from an exhibition tennis match with my son and two friends. We were on a stretch of road with a speed limit of 60, and I was laughing and talking and being careful not to speed when my friend in the front seat [...]
Yes, they’re dogs. But Laverne and Shirley have recently taken up the sport of catfighting, the kind where two females practically dismember one another while a man watches, mesmerized. The male in this case is Pancho, my three-legged Australian Shepherd, who is enthralled by their brawls. He thinks they’re fighting over him. And they are, [...]
In 2007, Elizabeth Gilbert published a beautiful memoir called Eat, Pray, Love that spent over three years on the New York Times paperback bestseller list. Near the end of the book, she tells the story of meeting the man she eventually marries. She describes one of their early dates, during which they had a wonderful [...]
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