If you’re a dog-lover, click over to my Facebook page to see some pics of my wiener dog Friday when he was a puppy.  Absolutely adorable!  And the inspiration behind the novella “Dogs of War” coming early next year. Technorati Tags: daschund, dogs, puppies, wiener dog

Guess what my father and my dog have in common?  If you said that they are both alcoholics, well, you’re close.  If you said they both have back problems, you would be closer.  After all, Friday is a daschund and my father is a dentist, both of which are prone to back issues. But if you said they are both diabetic, well then, give yourself a pat on the back because you win the Kewpie [...]

Ahh, Daschunds, the lovable, goofy, just plain bizarre-looking wiener dog. My wife and I adopted a wiener-pup over five years ago. We were told he was a tweenie, not quite a mini, up to 7 pounds, but not a massive standard dog, either. But the breeder was wrong. Our dog Friday is a beast. To read the whole post and see some adorable pictures of Friday through th years, click over to the Lighter Side. [...]

My dog is an idiot.  There, I said it.  I love him, but he has no regard for his own safety. We have a slight ant problem right now.  it’s that time of year.  Not big ants, just the tiny ones, but they are there nonetheless.  So I went out and bought some run of the mill ant traps and dropped them in the areas where the little buggers were at their greatest concentrations.  One was [...]

Two weeks and counting. That’s how long I’ve been sleeping on my couch.  Not that I’m complaining. Why am I sleeping on the couch, you may ask?  Well, if you have been reading my blog, you know that I have a newborn daughter,  That is not the problem.  The problem is, I have a dog.  And now just any dog, but a livable Daschund, who drives me crazy. Anyway, people have this misconception that wiener dogs are [...]

Time to switch my focus away from politics and Spongebob and TV and comic books for a couple of minutes and return to the fatherhood mindset, because quite a few things have happened in the past couple of weeks.  My wife gave birth to my second child, a little girl, and life has definitely changed.  I remember when my son Nathan was born.  My wife and I spent so much time with him as an [...]