The Allie Chronicles

My daughter Julie has been home for the past six weeks, and in that time has singlehandedly turned what had been Allie's mere love for b...

The past few days have been, shall we say, tumultuous. Despite taking what I had every eason to believe were appropriate and sufficient prec...

No, this is not a post waxing nostalgic about Lassie , Old Yeller , or other classic movies of the boy-loves-dog genre. Instead, I'm vee...

Like probably a gazillion other animal-loving WaPo readers, I enjoyed reading about the swimming test that the National Zoo gave to four lio...

Between today's absolutely gorgeous weather and the inspiration offered by today's Washington Post travel section on hitting the roa...

I was pretty pissed at Allie earlier today. We'd taken a nice long walk over a couple of briskly covered miles, and were on the last blo...