Animals
An Autistic Girl’s Guide to Horses
Learning I was autistic gave me insight into my childhood fixations and hurts, into how those things have stayed with me over the decades.
When the Squirrels Are Over
Squirrels are violent maters. I thought about that as metaphor, but I’ve already written that kind of essay, that story.
Maximum Dog
Even before the pandemic, we’d stopped having people over to the house. It’s become a doghouse that allows a few humans to stay there.
Still Life With Thelma and Louise, My ‘Ex-Batt’ Chickens
For my rescued hens, every day was the best day they’d ever had.
Smoky & Jack, the One-Woman Dogs
Is it as eerie as I think it is, this mirroring: the one-woman dogs; the girl babies who come too early, too small?
At the Twilight of a Dog’s Life, How Do You Know When It’s Time?
Aging is a funny thing. You’re not sure if the world has changed, or if a hundred cellular mutations have changed your place in it.
Rattled: The Recklessness of Loving a Dog
I believe that loving a dog is basically mortgaging future heartbreak against a decade or so of camaraderie—I’d understood this when I got Red. But when confronted with it, I felt shamefully angry at myself for even getting him.