Recently, I found my otherwise fearless dog freaking out in my basement, hiding in a corner. It was kind of funny … until the power went out. A few minutes later, my friend and neighbor Stew Smith, a ...

Aug. 30—The spouse is in the midst of an epic RV trip on the Alaska Highway with his brothers, so my to-do list while I was on my own was going to be just shy of epic. On the lineup were such riveting ...

Most people would agree that domesticated animals such as cats and dogs experience emotions and possess a capacity to think that we don’t quite understand. My dog dreams, as many dogs do, growling and ...

Yann Martel wrote the award-winning Life of Pi in 2002. He hasn’t published a novel since, so it’s no wonder there’s hubbub over the release of his new book, Beatrice and Virgil. While Pi was a ...