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When Susan and I first got married, I just wanted to be married for a while, just the two of us. But she wanted a dog. So I agreed to a dog on one condition: That we’d wait six months before getting one. We had been fostering a dog that summer, 15 years ago, and [...]

I was in the basement the other day painting the trim as part of the never-ending basement remodel, and apparently Smudge thought that was far enough away for her to do whatever she wanted in the rest of the house. As I entered the bedroom she gently flicked her tail as if to say “It’s [...]

An old friend from KU days, Ian Duffy, stopped by on his way from the airport to Lawrence on Friday. He was in town for a wedding. Ian now lives in the San Francisco Bay area and does product development for CLIF Bar. When I asked him what exactly he does, he said that he [...]

I was playing with iMovie for the first time and of course my first little movie is about Smudge. Susan discovered that the puppy really sounds funny when she has a Kong in her mouth and tries to speak. A Kong is a dense, rubber toy that you can fill with treats. Smudge is not [...]

Smudge and I took advantage of some mild weather this afternoon and took a walk along the Mill Creek Trail near Shawnee Mission Park. She ran into some barbed wire fencing while excitedly chasing some deer, and found herself with some nasty cuts on her snout, under her eye and the biggest, on her nose, [...]

Susan and I had a good Christmas at home in Shawnee this year. It was kind of nice to have some quiet time without all the travel hassles and weather worries. We opened our “Buffalo” gifts Christmas Eve, and pretty much had our $20-after-Christmas-sale tree down by Christmas morning. It was such a great day [...]

Few people know that the legendary caped crusader, Batman, is buried in the Cimarron town cemetery in section A, plot 21. Smudgie and I went for a stroll in the blizzard sweeping across western Kansas and rediscovered his final resting place there. Apparently after a life of fighting crime in Gotham City, Batman decided to [...]