Kemba and Ruckus spent the long Memorial Day weekend together at the beach in
Synchronized front-door-watching
Montauk. The Tuesday after, our daughter-in-law Kelly told us, Ruckus refused to go to Biscuits & Bath, the d…
Home free
Last Sunday morning, 8AM, Robby stumbled into our bedroom. “Here’s Kemba,” he announced, then quickly ducked back into his own room before I could react. It would have been nice if he’d let Kemba out to pee and gi…
Uncle and Nephew
I spent last weekend with two pretty athletic dogs.
You’ve heard me bragging about Kemba (named, of course, for UConn/Charlotte Hornets hoops star Kemba Walker) ad nauseum since he was just a tiny furball, so…
Greg forwards me this Instagram of Ruckus at school on his birthday. “Cutest birthday dog EVER,” he tells me
A shit-eating grin spread across Greg’s face, he looked over conspiratorially in my direction, and, in that instant,…
Kemba and his cousin Bruce, by consensus, get along as well as any two dogs can. Or, to be
Kemba shows Cuz around his home turf
more specific, as well as a mellow, sweet, food-loving six-year-old black Lab and a hyper-energe…
We’ve seen a bunch of firsts for my Duck Dog this past week: 1. his first, legit, off-leash,
Chick magnet
multi-mile run with me (Eureka!); 2. his first successful, full-extension, airborne Frisbee snag (see video), and 3. …
I think I’ve died and gone to heaven.
Après run
For 38 years, running has been my primary sport. For 13 years, dogs — first Ricky the Beagle, now Kemba the Duck Toller — have been my passion. From the git-go, my goal was to…
Whenever Kemba thinks I’m moving too slowly (usually), he makes himself comfortable in the snow and eats wood
It happened the first time maybe a year ago, on our second visit to Lake Mohegan. I’d parked in the lot near the C…
Let’s just get one thing out of the way right off the bat: Does this (photo below) look like
Official souvenir ball of the Zurich airport
just some T-shirt? Yeah, that’s right, I’m talking about Kemba’s wiseguy remark in hi…
