How I stopped worrying and learned to function in suburbia

Thus far this weekend, Bisou has had one long woods-walk and one all-out woods-and-boulders  hike . And her usual walks, because - permit a ...

A serious post about the world today

-OK, so poodles like to prance around on their hind legs . It's not (as some commenters appeared to believe) some Chinese conspiracy ma...

Poodles and cashmere UPDATED

Dear Bisou, What was it that made you decide that pulling sweaters out of a drawer and shredding them is now your thing? Were you inspired b...

The tristate area

Cropped for emphasis. The "are you Jewish" set were way off their game that day, going right past me twice  and asking the questio...

A family reunion

Upon arriving at the dog run, we noticed something surreal: Bisou was already there! But how could it be? Sure enough, this fluffier and sev...

In-flight movies quasi-reviewed

The insane, expensive, and exhausting process of getting a poodle to and from Germany is, at last, complete. Bisou minds flying a whole lot ...

Sick as a dog

Profundity may be even lower than usual here, what with Bisou's predictable-in-retrospect stomach woes. Sniffing around on enough sidewa...

Eight hours in Strasbourg

Yesterday my husband and I brought a poodle to France. This was by far the most glamorous use of 37 euros - the cost of round-trip for two f...

Woof

So, as you may have gathered, I'm across the Atlantic once again. Readers expecting vicarious 'I summer abroad' may be disappoin...

Pudel adventures

Today was (still is, it's early yet) market day. Bisou, who'd up till now received indifference and glares from locals just trying t...

A jet- and poodle-lagged pedagogy post

In Heidelberg with husband and poodle. So I have not kept up with the thread following this post , and I'm way behind on Sunday Styles a...

Yoga for dogs

For Kei . Dogs and their strange couch-napping positions. How can this be comfortable?

The things to worry about roundup

-The question of "fast fashion" is in the news again, thanks to a new and much - publicized book by Elizabeth Cline. To some of ...

Why I'm off to the library

For context, this is Bisou standing on top of a large chair. In between cameras at the moment, so Photobooth it is. I think she's offici...

How Bisou fills her days

"The Squirrel and Rabbit Show" Disembodied poodle-head. How is this comfortable? "Who does your hair?" "I really ap...

Gratuitous poodle photos

A new puppy is an event to be amply documented. So I wasn't thrilled when my camera broke. Now, however, my husband has one of those cam...

Over the weekend

-Saw the notorious, inescapable first episode of "Girls." It's definitely funny, as well as refreshing to have a self-deprecat...

On meat-eating and dog-ownership

I may have been pushed over the edge, if not into squeamishness veganism , than at least squeamishness quasi-vegetarianism, on Saturday. Aft...

Dog and man

The Ayelet Waldman of poodle owners

Before I gave any particular thought to poodles, I assumed that they could either be topiaried - which they probably wouldn't appreciate...