Some friends had a dog that gave birth to some puppies. A few months later, they were finding homes for the dogs and persuaded me to take one of them. I named him Curtis after a friend and former coworker. I remember giving him the news. “I got a dog and named him after you,” […]

We were dog sitting for my son’s German Shepard. One morning, after getting dressed, I came into the living room to find the dog sitting in the middle of the room staring at me. “Wanna go out in the front yard and take a dump?” I asked. Within earshot in the kitchen, my wife replied, […]