Our golden retriever, Elsa, has food sensitivities. This does not mean either that she is loath to eat mere hamburger when there is filet mignon...

In addition to the enchantment with language and storytelling, there is the fact that I wouldn’t know what the hell to do if I were not doing this. Some leisure is fine, but not an unrelieved diet of downtime. I’m also writing to ensure that our foundation–which focuses largely on organizations for the severely disabled,…