This is not a day I have been looking forward to. Later this morning, we have to say goodbye to George... ... and leave him in Laguna with...

We enjoyed a wonderfully pleasant evening yesterday, driving down with our friends Brian and Mary to the village for dinner, indulging (myse...

It was a trivial incident, really. Insignificant in the grand scale of things. I had just left the front door of our house, about ten o...

Well, I'm sure that everyone is anxious to hear about George's day at the vet--my having mentioned, yesterday, that he was going in ...

What a lovely surprise! The old Art Deco nursery clock from the rectory in Aspley Guise, where I spent my earliest days on earth, suddenly ...

Well, it was quite a trip. Here we are, safely back in Los Angeles--thanks, by the way, to those who wished us a safe journey. It actually...

It was one of those dreadful nights you wouldn't wish on anyone. It started out okay. We watched "The History Boys"--one of ...

... and about two dozen other Cavalier King Charles Spaniels. Here they are. A handful of them, anyway. We were just a bit worried about t...

...make good neighbors," wrote Robert Frost, famously, in his poem, " Mending Wall ." Or walls, or gates, or hedges. Frost ...

I see that George Bush got reamed yesterday. His turn. He has been reaming the rest of the world these past few years. They found five po...

Well, we were reunited yesterday with George. Our dog. He was pleased enough to see us again, if much leaping up and licking of the face i...

Georgie met Carly, Carly met Georgie. No, not THAT Carly—not the one who regularly posts comments on The Buddha Diaries. He’s the imposter...

... That's the morning headline. I did the usual thing. If it's still dark when I first get up, I take him out on a leash for his...

George has the itches. I mean, seriously. He's been at it night and day, scratching incessantly, for about four days now. At first we...