by Katerina Lorenzatos Makris ~ Why can’t I get my act together, make plans, and follow through with much of anything these days? It’s not like I’ve ever been the most organized drawer in the dresser, but now, with one and sometimes more of our big brood of rescued pooches ill, my metaphorical drawer tends […]
by Katerina Lorenzatos Makris ~ “This dog does not have Leishmaniasis,” a fellow rescuer insisted. I was urging him to get a pooch he had found in Greece tested for that deadly parasite. “No way,” he said. “I’ve been rescuing here for 12 years. Don’t you think by now I’d know the symptoms?” Then he […]
by Katerina Lorenzatos Makris ~ Our senior dog Sophia is trapped in the grip of monsters. They are microscopic, but monstrous nonetheless. It’s hard to imagine more vicious or voracious foes. To make matters worse, her enemies did a good job of disguising themselves. Until just a few weeks ago, we didn’t even know who […]
by Katerina Lorenzatos Makris ~ Just when I start to feel (again) that my writing is pretty much pointless, and that maybe I should fold up the laptop and hunt for honest work, in flies an email from out of the blue to blast away the doubts. An email from a complete stranger, and from […]
by Katerina Lorenzatos Makris ~ Sophia used to look like Meg Ryan—or at least Meg Ryan back in her When Harry Met Sally days of that fluffy blonde mane.
