I had a birthday last Friday. I love birthdays. I don’t particularly like counting them, but I like celebrating the gift of another year coming my way. The day before my birthday last week, I put a “Throwback Thursday” picture on my Facebook page of me with a dog named Jody. I mentioned that he was the best birthday gift …
A Gift of Love
(I promised to share this story sometime and it seemed the right time now. It was first published in The Dog Next Door: And Other Stories of the Dogs We Love by Callie Smith Grant.) I was nine when I got the dog hunger. I wanted a dog with every inch of my fiber. So much that I would have traded …