Puppy Love

July 10, 2012

Puppy Love

I meet a dog on the leafy streets of my hound-mad neighborhood, lounging on a bench in the shade. Small, fluffy and impossibly white, a Zen portrait of a clean conscience and absolute faith. My heart gongs when I see her. I move in closer and notice that she is resting on a pair of knees. The…

August 23, 2012

Puppy Love 2: The Resurrection

Spoiler Alert: The following is the sequel to this furry little tale. I thought she was a goner. Dead dog walking. The old man told me she had canine TB and less than six months to live. Our sadness embraced. After I fell hard for his pooch, the old man invites me home to meet Junya, his…

September 17, 2012

Never Say Die (Puppy Love 3)

I can’t stop thinking about the old man and that fluffy, little pooch. When the vet warned her days were numbered, my geriatric pal thought it was from the same epidemic that snuffed his older brother, 67 years ago. It didn’t hit him that tuberculosis doesn’t infect dogs because back in the killing fields of WW2, it…

January 30, 2013

C’est La Vie (Puppy Love 4)

I have a bad feeling. Something is wrong. I grab the phone and call my friend Junya. She’s the invincible 86 year-old wife of the 90+ Eddy- tender war vet, family guy and my senior crush. I can’t stop blogging about them and their fluffy, little pooch- who first winked at me from a park bench…

March 27, 2013

I am not alone (Puppy Love 5)

My eyes met Sgnieszka’s as she sat on a park bench under a tree last summer. I went bananas for the pooch and fell hard for her old man, too. They took me home to meet Eddy’s longtime sweetheart Junya and yanked me into their triangle of love. We got right down to business; chug-a-lugging…

December 16, 2014

Home, Sweet Home

I fell hard for Sgniezska and Eddy, two years ago, when our eyes locked on the street. I followed them home, tail wagging, to meet Eddy’s mighty wife Junya, and down glass-after-glass of tea. They rang my heart like a bell. * Their tiny kitchen cooked with stories of their big lives. All I had to do…

August 6, 2015

Until Next Time

I fell hard for an old, Polish man with a sweet heart and a killer constitution, the unassuming, slow-moving star of a story that he, his late wife and their little dog so gamely let me take a crack at. As I contemplate the book of his life, I wonder: does it end here? Dear…

PUPPY LOVE is a love story between a pooch, a writer and an old man.

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Puppy Love

Puppy Love 2: The Resurrection

Never Say Die (Puppy Love 3)

C’est La Vie (Puppy Love 4)

I am not alone (Puppy Love 5)

Home, Sweet Home

Until Next Time