LA/XC DAY ONE: ALEXANDRIA, VA
Today’s mileage: 302
Road Music: ESPN Radio; “The Highway” (new country) on XM radio; my “Hurricane Irene” playlist (a mix featuring Adele, Springsteen, Keith Urban, Dixie Chicks, Creedence, Gretchen Wilson, Grateful Dead, Tom Petty, and others)
Weather leaving Wes…
Just one more day until our much-anticipated road trip. Yup, tomorrow Ricky and I em-BARK.
Ricky's last sleep for three weeks in the Cozy Confines of Devon Road
Though I like the image of me and my pooch riding …
Bring it on, Irene!
Sunday morning, 4:50 AM. I hear the shakety-shake. Ricky had jumped out of his bed and was doing his morning dog-thing. The moment I had half-dreaded, half-anticipated had arrived: My beagle w…
Zoe, Chloe, and Tucker (top to bottom)
I’d by lying if I said I wasn’t starting to really look forward to my cross-country drive to L.A. with my doggy. I know it all started as a promise to Robby to bring his pup ou…
Have been out at the beach in Montauk on vacation for the last two weeks. Have forgotten — as you can see — how to write in complete sentences.
In the midst of this sun-sand-surf interlude, with nothing but picture-perfect weather, my niece Kat had a baby — George Edward. To be called Teddy,…
"It's so hot. And I'm full of sand. And the horse flies are eating me alive. And I hate the water. I just don't get it . . ."
We were on the beach yesterday — a reasonable move, I think, wi…
Dog owners are always trying to one-up each other. My last post on Ricky’s relentless pursuit of food elicited comments from followers about their own beagles’ never-ending quest. One reader says her Boo has snagged and devoured a tray of fudge, toffee bars, a pound of cheese, a pound of ham -…
Post-bagel bliss
All dogs live to eat. Most dogs would be happy to eat — anything — 24/7. The thing that separates my very special beagle from the pack is his resourcefulness in sniffing out the newbie in any giv…
. . . or Starsky and Hutch?
There are two little beagles Ricky and I have been running into lately on our “destination” walks at Southport Harbor. They’re brother and sister, seven years old, and a lot smaller than …
Lewis and Clark -- and Ricky
All three of my sons — the human ones, that is — are excellent athletes. Football, basketball, baseball . . . I’ve gotten a huge kick watching them play over the years. I’ve also coac…