Because Benny isn’t ALWAYS barking
15 seconds of adorableness.
Chronic illness: acceptance, denial and the reality we make
Mama was diagnosed with Common Variable Immunodeficiency (CVID) in the late 1990s, right around her fiftieth birthday. She had a big birthday bash planned at The Palm. She had bought […]
Finding your own inner barking dog
A lot of these stories are really about me figuring out they are stories–narratives, if not wholly fictions—that I have used to make sense of my life. And a lot […]
Going with the flow
Whoever said buying things can’t make you happy? This product makes me happy. Aside from the barking, Benny had (and still has) another very bad habit. Benny pees anywhere he damn […]
Benny loves Enrique
Living with chronic illness is very difficult psychologically on a person and her family. I’ll write about the many years of Mom’s illness later… it should be written. For now, just understand […]
I blame our mother
I’ll admit right now, my mom and I had a very complicated, psychologically enmeshed and possibly unhealthy relationship. Sometimes this played out in relation to her animals, or more precisely, […]
Pay attention
Since I’m thinking and writing about my experiences with grief and burnout, I made a little trip to BookPeople just to see what was new there. The Grief and Grieving shelf […]
Facing the impossible
Maybe about 6 weeks after Benny moved in with me, I took him with me to San Antonio to stay with my significant other (“E”) for the weekend. I had […]
A real tale to tell, a real tail to tell it with
Because Benny has something to say… A poem for today, Dog by Lawrence Ferlinghetti The dog trots freely in the street and sees reality and […]
The beginning of burning out
As I mentioned in, Our Story, this blog is not just about mourning the loss of my mom and getting used to living with her (very bad, but very precious) […]
Benny Is Barking 