Bender in Prison
I recently wrote an essay for an MBA program answering the following prompt: How does your intellectual curiosity drive your professional and personal growth? I half completed about a dozen essays in a week. Finally...
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Zero to Sixty
Sigh. He’s sprouting like a weed. All of the sudden he has these legs that are way too long for him, he’s so tall he can barely lick the floor (one of his...
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Dogs will be Dogs
I love how Bender just instinctually knows how to be a dog. I don’t mean like he wags his tail when he’s happy and barks at strangers and wants to murder every moving...
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80% Perfect, 10% Jekyll, 10% Hyde
Bender sleeps like 80% of the day. The other 20% is split into two states. He is either a half drowsy, wonderful, cuddly puppy who just sits and observes the world going on...
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Puppy Love
There have been a few times that I knew I loved Bender. Before I even met him I was having nightmares about losing him. The day I did finally meet him I could...
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What happened to a good old thump on the noggin?
So I’m beginning to realize something here, this positive reinforcement thing is a real pain in the ass. It goes like this: your puppy jumps up on the couch, you lure him off...
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Four Decades of Dogs
In 1976 John Brown unknowingly began a lifelong, generations-wide tradition. He gave his daughter a golden retriever puppy and my life, one among many others, was changed forever. That tiny puppy from John...
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