by Jacki Skole | Feb 23, 2017 | Uncategorized
Dogland Blog Save the Date! I will be participating in the Princeton Public Library’s Local Author Day on Saturday, March 25 from 1:00-4:00 p.m. I’ll be joined by some forty authors from the New Jersey/Pennsylvania area. So please, stop by, meet authors,...
by Jacki Skole | Oct 27, 2016 | Uncategorized
Dogland Blog Growing old isn’t easy. Not that I consider myself old. I’ll soon be pushing fifty, but these days I think fifty may be the new thirty. Still, there’s some fleeting knee pain here, random wrist pain there. Mentally, there are the black...
by Jacki Skole | Oct 21, 2016 | Standard
Dogland Blog Dogs can sniff out some pretty incredible things—explosives, drugs, cancer, criminals—the list continues to grow, bounded only, says cognitive scientist Alexandra Horowitz, by human imagination. In her newest exploration of doghood, Being a Dog: Following...
by Jacki Skole | Oct 4, 2016 | Standard
Dogland Blog On September 25, the New York Times’ Sunday Styles section paid tribute to “Fashion’s Favorite Pets”: Marc Jacobs’ bull terrier Neville, Karl Lagerfeld’s Birman cat Choupette, and Thom Browne’s miniature dachshund Hector, all of whom, the article says,...
by Jacki Skole | Sep 1, 2016 | Uncategorized
Dogland Blog I’ve long believed that Galen understands me when I speak to her. If she didn’t, would she drag herself out of her crate and run upstairs to my daughters’ rooms to wake them each morning upon hearing me call out, “Galen, it’s time to wake the girls?”...