Posts by Hank

Ricky audits Writing Club I’m pretty sure I’ve mentioned that last fall I started an after-school writing club for students at Bryant Elementary School in Bridgeport.  We’ve been meeting every Thursday since then, and some of…

RICKY WILLIAM HERMAN May 8, 2003 – April 7, 2014 This morning I drove to Southport Harbor for my daily excursion with Ricky.  Only there was no Ricky. That’s how I’ve been dealing with things since he died a week ago:  I do a…

Ricky’s ready I know there are still more than 160 days till I hit the road for LA/XC-4, but I find myself looking forward to my annual September cross-country drive earlier and earlier each year.  And this time around there’…

  Is he more of a “Ricky” . . . Item seen on Dogster earlier this week: When you first brought your dog home, her name was Daisy — but now you’ve been together a while, she’s more of a Digger.  Or maybe your gentlemanly …

Only dogs in the ring, no trainers.  That way we won’t have to see any more of those sensible shoes and 1950s dresses No beauticians. You don’t see me doing this to Ricky before we go out in the morning     Ella surveys her troops . . . Ricky the Beagle, Connecticut’s only dog to have completed three transcontinental road trips (I can’t swear to this, but I’m gonna go with it until someone proves me wrong), is about to embark on…

Last week Ricky and I were at the vet yet again, having his bloodwork done yet again, as we tinkered with his meds yet again, in an effort to lengthen the YOU tell ME who’s normal here intervals between his epileptic seizures…

The right spot (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) I’ve told my friend Jeff  time and again to stop sending me his cute little “thought-you-might-like-this” internet items.  I tell him I never, ever read them.  But he keeps sendin…

See if you can find a handsome little beagle in this picture . . . Come on.  It’s Friday  night of the weekend before Christmas.  You really think I’m gonna write something?  And Center of attention (just the way he likes it) Last week Ricky sat in on not just one, but two of my writing workshops.  The first was the Tuesday After-School Writing Club I started for fifth- and sixth-graders at Bryant Ele…