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The Game of Twigs

Finnigan taught me how to play fetch this weekend. Here he is with his new red ball. Before this summer, Finnigan had no interest in the fetching process. He was content to bark and jump and menace the pugs and the children. But something's changed in him of late. It sounds corny but it was like a switch went off in his reptilian brain. Finnigan was looking for a connection. I will admit in front of a jury that Finnigan is not my dog. He is Scott's dog. I have pugs. Finn waits at the door for Scott to come home and hugs him. Me, he barks at. Sometimes, he bares his teeth. There is no respect there, none. He is a punishment from God, at least that's what I think sometimes. But about a month ago, Finnigan began to reach out to me. He began interrupting our Dominoes games by bringing me twigs, drooly, foamy twigs laced I am certain with E coli. It was a real nuisance. The twigs landed on my pants or my bare thigh and as many times as I tried to throw them out ...

Christmas: Less about sentiment, more about the hunt

My life has changed in the last few weeks. First, I lost my Kindle. Then my computer caught a virus. Then I saw the dreaded red blink on the printer – no more ink. And finally, my iPhone started dropping apps. I found myself in a technological dead zone. It’s as if God gave me a time out. If that wasn’t bad enough, the high-priced coffee machine my son bought me started exploding and then died. We sent it along to a Wall-e style graveyard where all the old Cuisinarts and Kitchen Aids go to die. The coffee machine isn’t that big a problem; the fact is, I don’t really like coffee, if I were to be perfectly honest, so I’m back to tea, and not the expensive kind, either. The kind you buy at the ethnic food store, two dollars for three hundred bags of Darjeeling. In past days, I’ve realized I’m in need of a complete technological retrofit. I need a new phone. Will it be an iPhone 5 or a Samsung Galaxy? I need a new computer. Will it be a Mac or a new PC with Windows 8? T...