Impotently roaming through Canada
We took the shortcut John Steinbeck couldn’t. And it wasn’t because he didn’t have Mapquest. It was because he had a dog. Steinbeck, once seeing Niagara Falls, had hoped to scoot west across southern...
View ArticleSalvation Mountain: A heap of commitment
Between the Salton Sea and the Chocolate Mountains — in what may sound, and look, like a space you’d land on in the old board game Candyland — there was a man, and a mountain, I needed to check in on....
View ArticleTogether again: Dog and Marine reunited
Marine Sgt. Ross Gundlach, while serving in Afghanistan, made a promise to Casey, the explosive-detecting yellow Lab who worked alongside him. “I promised her if we made it out of alive, I’d do...
View ArticleRecognizing a gift when it lands in your lap
Nala isn’t an officially certified therapy dog. Her presence at a Minnesota nursing home, apparently, didn’t require her owner to navigate a bureaucracy or fill out mounds of paperwork. She was never...
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