Archive for January 2024

The Long Goodbye by Richard F. Stratton “Old age is a massacre,” Phillip Roth wrote.  But in truth it is a maceration—the steady grind of injury upon injury, the unstoppable decline of function into dysfunction, and the inexorable loss of resilience.–Sidhartha Mukherjee At least, I hope it will be a long goodbye!  I turned ninety-two…

Readers of my books will recall that I put forth the idea that our breed was the closest dog breed that was still extant to the original old Bulldog. I remember with pleasure that everyone loved the first book, This Is the American Pit Bull Terrier, published in 1976, and it eventually became the best-selling…