The Animals

[...] news about my memoir, The Animals.  I’ve had excellent help, especially from Bonnie Burns and Debbie Hemley, women with strong brains and big hearts.  They taught me essential [...]

[...] http://www.wwbic.org.uk/red-squirrel/factors.asp This post is dedicated to Bonnie Burns, one of the bloggers on the Amazing Blog Tour. I hope you have visited all three bloggers that [...]

[...] since 1876 when Thomas Brocklehurst, of Henbury Park, Cheshire, brought back a pair of grey squirrels from his business trip to America.  The talk of Cheshire, they inspired neighbors and [...]

[...] things I learned from my Scottish neighbors was how dastardly and infectious the dangerous grey squirrel could be. This interloper, often described as an immigrant from America, is often blamed for [...]

[...] the whole count.  I know.  I’ve been there. Not with a pit-bull, but with a border collie: the world’s smartest dog.  When Ben, for that is his name, displayed aggressive [...]

[...] , full of love and good intentions, we still kept trying and failing to train our cats, our Border collie, and our two Akitas, one too aggressive, and one dear, deaf and epileptic. But our new family [...]

  Today my post will be something different.  I leave the familiar terrain of the real life animals that fill my memoir The Animals to [...]

[...] /factors.asp This post is dedicated to Bonnie Burns, one of the bloggers on the Amazing Blog Tour. I hope you have visited all three bloggers that I introduced you to in my last post. [...]

[...] in progress: “Can We Know that Jesus Saves Us?” begins on an island in Southwest Scotland, at the funeral service of Kathleen (Leeny) Archer. Her art gallery in Hackney, London has [...]

[...] many months every year in the village of Tongland, which is outside Kirkcudbright in Southwest Scotland. We’ve been coming here for twenty years and stay in our wee cottage, built in 1812. [...]

[...] three exciting writers joining the Blog Tour:  Bonnie Burns, Anna Vodicka, and Joel Fishman. Bonnie Burns published her poetry in Sojourner and Bay Windows during the heyday of the women& [...]

[...] post. If you missed out, here are the links to their excellent blogs: Bonnie Burns; Joel Fishman; Anna Vodicka. Bonnie is a lover of live squirrels and a dedicated and careful curator [...]

[...] stub—a pathetic wee stub that reminds him never to riddle or rhyme again. The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin We are still supplied with moral and political tales involving transgressive squirrels, but [...]