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…
Are you kidding me? Another Kemba in the dog park?? Whaaat??? Of course I knew there was a person named Kemba. Kemba Walker, the basketball player from UConn. You know,
The original Kemba Walker — my namesake
my namesake…
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…
Lye Brook Falls. Lye Brook Falls. All winter, whenever
Falls. But not the Falls.
we’ve done hikes in the woods, I keep hearing about the time back in the fall of 2013 — I wasn’t even born yet! —that Beagle Man and Langdon a…
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…
