Tag: terrier

• Book Review: Fancy Dogs by Tini Malina (author) and Tammi Reichel (translator)

  WHAT A CHARMING BOOK! I am a relatively newish dog lover, acquiring my very first dog in late 2011, but as with many things in my life, when I fall, I FALL HARD. I now know all the dogs in our neighborhood, dog-sit for friends (hi to my favorite Golden, Chubbs), pet random dogs whenever…

  michardillo

  July 15, 2026

  books

  ARC, book-review, book-reviews, books, children’s book, dog, Fancy Dogs, NetGalley, NorthSouth Books, picture book, reading, Tammi Reichel, terrier, Tini Malina, translator, writer, writing

• How Sixteen Pounds Changed My Life

  In the fall of 2011, I was driving to work, chatting happily with my car pool. Even though my daughters were both away at college, I ferried two high school girls, family friends of ours, to the neighborhood where I teach so they could walk to their school each morning. One day in the school…

  michardillo

  December 20, 2015

  Essay

  cat, dog, Maltipoo, Persian, terrier, vet, Westie