Yeah, but what if heartbreak drives her to a minor metropolitan cities?

My annual resolution is to stop indulging in schadenfreude, but stuff like this thwarts my resolve. Eh. A lack of self-confidence is unfortunate, but an overabundance of it is just plain obnoxious. Anyway, she'll be just fine—better, even!

"yes, ladies and gentlemen, for the first time in my life, I have been dumped."

I came home from the dog park a few minutes ago. A corgi was ruling the place; it wrestled a St. Bernard into the fence.

James and Hawthorne!

If you're unfamiliar with Munro's work, newyorker.com has unlocked some of their archives and made a few things public.

Yup. If you're curious, newyorker.com's unlocked some of their archive to make some of her stories available. Her stuff avoids everything crappy about the average published contemporary story, which tend to reflect the quality of the work turned out in your average cash-cow MFA writing program or by McSweeny's…

The contemporary short story is probably my least favorite form. Their brevity pretty much prevents subtlety, since there's so little space to work through an arc to a conclusion. (That's also why they're so teachable.) I especially dislike New Yorker short stories; I find so many of them precious, perhaps because so…

Body of work.

Reduce the quantity of dog food she's fed by a third, and add canned or baked pumpkin or sweet potatoes equal to to the amount cut back. Add enough warm water so that it mixes smoothly. It's high in fiber, so the dog won't be hungry. Our vet suggested this when our newest rescue began to put on weight in the first…

Alas not satire, given his plans a few hours before he tweeted about Miss America:

It's also breed-specific. Greyhounds famously don't fetch, since sighthounds are wired to run down moving objects. Throw a frisbee and watch a greyhound's reaction and you will feel the chill of pure doggy contempt.

One of my girls is an exceptionally addled rescued Saluki-Borzoi "staghound" (what wolfhound crosses …

Until recently I thought snoods were only a greyhound thing! But so cute on the bassets. I do think this Chihuahua wears one well, too:

If you have delicate sensibilities, I would not recommend getting the procedure done in Omaha.

It's so hard, losing a companion. I'm glad the two of you were able to spend that time together.

Puupetier: That's an assumption that may be okay for someone working in the lab, but not for the person who interprets the data coming out of the lab. Are you trying to talk about criterion-referenced tests, which are designed to assess specific outcomes? If properly designed, they may predict how an individual will…

You will, however, find my large and clumsy SalukiXBorzoi, Frida, hunting moths enthusiastically, to the detriment of curtains and whatever smaller items of furniture with which she collides.

I don't see the statement, "I made her call my teachers and argue about the Fs that I'd receive quite frequently" in this article as of 5 pm EST. If it's from another post, ignore the following. Or was that line changed to "she got involved in my bad grades during a particularly rough patch with family issues to help…

You're absolutely right—I went off track.

It's a public commuter university in a conservative suburb of Detroit. I'm surprised someone complained. It's a pokey little public university that has been greatly helped by parents' unfounded fears of sending their stay-at-home slacker kids to Wayne State University—a Carnegie RU/VH (i.e., top research class)…