Last spring when Stoco Lake Dog Derby organizer Abby Fallis asked me to help her supervise the road crossing I thought, ‘Ok. This should be interesting! Playing traffic cop for excited packs of dogs all running together, musher in tow meeting oncoming vehicles on…

I am so excited! Our first solo “away” run ( not home trails) with my Dax n’ Ahna team: two young dogs (19 months) no experienced leader, no other dogs to follow, no one out front. Dax and Ahna – my DNA team! (Nordiclight’s…

I’m looking for the right photo to post with this post. Reaching for my phone my eyes fall on the corkboard behind my desk, passes up and over the desktop screen, and moves across the wall. There are pictures of all my dogs here,…

Let me start by saying I really do not like the word “blog.” It is, well, loggy. It sounds like something you’d say by mistake when trying to talk while eating a peanut butter sandwich on whole grain bread without a lick of honey…

Puppies are coming! Next week in fact. Meanwhile, I am puppy-proofing. Because puppies like to chew, compulsively. New puppy owners despair. That cute puppy they brought home in their arms has become a compulsive toothsome monster, chewing, nipping, mouthing, a menace to civilized living….

My Benny was a very strong dog. Early on it became evident that he liked to pull and really grooved on working his muscles, one on one, near me, beside me, with me. So we went to work! Here’s what I built to do…

January is a strange month. It seems like the longest month of the year, yet as it comes to a close, I am wondering where it went. In January, we run headlong into sunrise, the sky stretches and yawns before drawing us into the…

I was drawn to Blake’s Auguries of Innocence one morning by this image, To see the World in a Grain of Sandand Heaven in a Wildflowerhold Infinity in the palm of your hand and Eternity in an Hour… Blake’s poem goes on for 128…

This is “Flake”, an Alaskan Malamute owned by Nathalie Roy and Pierre Thibault of Nordiclight Kennels. I chose this image as my cover for many reasons, but primarily because Malamutes don’t just howl, they sing. To howl is to utter a long, loud cry…