When we decided to bring home a new dog, I worried a lot about the whole chewing thing. When our Frix was a pup, she spent about two years destroying and consuming anything she could sink her teeth into. She had mostly outgrown the habit by the time my daughter was born — but even [...]
My daughter and I spent all of last evening and this morning in the breezeway of a local grocery store, selling Girl Scout cookies. Hawking at Hawkins, so to speak. We sold a lot of cookies, but we also spent a lot of time just sitting there, shivering because the store was just busy enough [...]
The other day, Daughter had one of her friends over to play. The girl’s grandpa came over to pick her up. Gramps (who actually isn’t much older than I am) came to our kitchen door, saw Loki waiting on the inside and hesitated. “He’s friendly,” I explained. “Come on in if you don’t mind his [...]
Loki has never been willing to negotiate his way down our basement steps. He could climb up them. He could go down other steps, including some at an Ashland park that were a good bit longer than the ones at our house. But those didn’t look the same. Those led up a hillside, so there [...]
Weight-wise, my 9-year-old daughter and my 1-year-old dog are about the same size. She might even have a pound or two on him. But in every way that matters, he’s bigger than her. When he stands on his hind legs, he’s taller than her. He’s stronger. He’s faster. He has shiny white teeth and big [...]
Loki's chronicler is Gere McClellan Goble, a wife, mother, journalist and sometime fiction-writer who lives in rural Northeastern Ohio.
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