I’m not dead.  I have been struggling with chronic depression/total lack of motivation to do ANYthing since the dog situation ended as it did, which is coinciding with one of the busiest several weeks of my life working on Driftless Film Festival 2011.  An extremely bad combo. I would vent a bit more about that, […]

We’ve come to the hard decision to relinquish Ciaran back to the greyhound rescue.  He’ll be returning to his foster home tonight. He is really a perfect dog, and this is not at all his fault.  But his presence was starting to wear down on Gandalf’s iffy health.  He (Gandalf) has not been eating much […]

Ciaran was the People’s Choice of dog name by a wide margin.  Although it wasn’t really a vote, perhaps everyone’s opinions helped me to see the shortcomings of the other name choices. As for whether to adopt the dog or not, that decision, too, seemed to be taken out of our hands.  He (and his […]