Love is the perfect pillow when you need it most.
Feb 142012
Feb 102012
“Halitosis is a husky faux pas. Would it kill you to buy these in liver flavor?”
Feb 082012
Things are getting out of control lately. So much so, I’m posting these photos I found laying around my computer since November. That’s Mr. Wild Dingo there on Lake Léman with les loups. This past month, I’ve been helping out with the story telling at Mango Minster. I don’t know how Mango’s DOH does it. Just the [...]
Feb 062012
Look at that face. Frozen whiskers. Sad eyes. It breaks your heart doesn’t it?
Feb 022012
Phthph! This month’s masthead is totally sappy. I don’t do sappy well. I hemmed and hawed. I kicked and stammered. But Mr. Wild Dingo, who’s even less sappier than me, twisted my arm and told me to run it. It’s just as well. This week, I’m giving a yoga class themed on love in light [...]
Jan 312012
If given a last meal request, most people would request steak, fried food and creamy desserts. But not this crazy Italian. She’d request Bitter Italian Vegetables sauté. It’s a flavorful dish, easy to make and versatile. You can use it as a main meal adding sausage, as I did above, or toss it with penne pasta. [...]
Jan 262012
Look at that pansy. He’s not even touching my hand. Switzerland’s softened the cracker. And I told him so.
Jan 252012
I found this photo that Mr. Wild Dingo took while he was home for three weeks over the winter holidays. He spoiled the dogs with attention and broke all the household rules. He walked with us every day and got a real appreciation of the work that’s truly required for these two. And now I [...]
Jan 182012
Like the rest of the Western world, there’s no snow in Switzerland. We saw this light dusting just before the holidays. Mr. Wild Dingo was on vacation and had the pleasure of a freshly fallen snow walk with the cracker and the criminal in the forest. ***
Jan 152012
“There’s nothing worse than soaking wet Jodhpurs!” The only downside of the dogs vacationing at Bernard’s is that in the winter, they come home smelling like smoke. All dogs are indoor dogs at Bernard’s, and he and his wife seem to be smokers. But it’s a small price to pay for the luxury of having them stay in a “home” [...]
Jan 122012
The Phaestos Disc is a round clay disc of roughly 16 cm (6 inches) in diameter. It was discovered at Phaestos (in Crete) in 1903. It’s inscribed on both sides with pictorial symbols that spiral from the circumference into the center. Spiral themes are a huge design element in Minoan art and writing, featured on everything such as sarcophagus’, [...]
Jan 092012
If you told me 10 years ago, I would adopt a lunatic dog from Taiwan with a serious case of crackery-nosis, maybe I would believe you. But if you told me I would be journaling his ridiculous behavior on the Web and writing in his ridiculous tough-guy Raymond Chandler voice, I’d laugh and ask you who [...]
Jan 062012
This month’s header is dedicated to my favorite song by Prince that I’ve been playing on my iPod whenever I ride the indoor bike trainer. Shortly after returning home from Istanbul, I got serious about solving my health problems. I was pretty sick this summer before my London trip in July. Remember how I fell [...]
Dec 302011
As you may know by now, Mr. Wild Dingo and I are vacationing in the Greek Islands over the New Year. The Cracker and the Criminal are spending New Year’s with Switzerland’s rowdiest, coolest doggie spa and Pension pour Chiens sans Cage, Bernard’s Kennel.
Dec 282011
By the end of the day, that Santa the subject of a Formosan-Siberian Tug-0-War. The Formosan ended up with the red jacket and the Sibe took the naked Santa as her prize.
Dec 272011
Nothing makes me happier than to make Mr. Wild Dingo uncomfortable. So when our neighbor stopped me in our driveway Friday night to ask if Mr. Wild Dingo would like to be “Father Christmas” for his three children, I didn’t hesitate: “Yes of course he’ll do it,” I answered. Like I’m going to ask Mr. Wild Dingo his [...]
Dec 222011
“Don’t blame me. I was just wrapping your present.”
Dec 162011
Do you people know how hard it is to get a shot of the infamous Mont Blanc? Seriously Internet. When we walk by it every day and try to shoot it with a “point and shoot” camera (the only one I take on dog walks), the results are less than fabulous. The snow washes out against the sky [...]
Dec 132011
They’re an unlikely pair. Juno and Mr. Wild Dingo. He prefers goofy, gruff, manly dogs and she prefers me. But every Sunday, the one day per week the four of us are together, she’s his and he’s hers for the day. The ritual of taking her leash each Sunday has bonded them in ways beyond my imagination.
Dec 122011
This cooking thing is new to me. In my pre-Swiss life, I had a career and a two or three big hobbies that kept me too busy to try to do more than a few pastas, sautés, rice dishes, easy soups and salads. I’ve been trying for about a year to get my beef braising right. [...]
