Something was going to happen, dogs sense change. I get anxious when I see the crate move from the hallway to the patio, back to the hallway and then to the living room. I have bouts of shaking when the humans start acting like a surprise party is being planned and nobody talks about it. [...]
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Mino’s Tails: Meskel Mayhem
Para leer este relato en castellano, haz clic aquí I was sound asleep on a bamboo bed rubbing my muzzle into Nico’s belly and half submerged in a cotton blanket wrapped around his feet, when I heard commotion outside of the hut. It was still too cold, 3000m in the Gamo Gofa mountains in Southern Ethiopia, [...]
Life in the Hamster Tube
Numerology How long does a man really live? On average a man lives 28,000 days or 672,000 hours. But are those hours truly lived or just hours of life? Are we alive during sleep, which accounts for nearly half of our lives? And if we discount the time spent in the office, considered by some [...]
Horizon Ethiopique
There comes a time when rock climbers start to think about what it means to climb walls that have never been climbed before. Climbers begin to wonder if they have the smarts, strength and guts to go to remote places, untested rock, and start climbing. Carrying a heavy rack and the possibility of failure, [...]
Cousin Kosovo, the Crown Prince & the Deaf Rapper
Para leer esta historia en español, hazle clic aqui Ilir is my cousin. He told me the first time we met. He’s from Kosovo which makes him Albanian, so he’s got a lot of cousins. He called me at 9am in morning and told me today was his birthday. I decided to forego the office [...]
Mino’s Tails: Great Ethiopian Run
Yesterday Nico took me for the strangest walk I’ve ever been on. He usually takes me to the mountains, and I chase birds through the brush. Sometimes he leads me across glaciers, and sometimes we run over desert sandstone. Sometimes he takes me into the jungle and hairy, human-like monkeys try to pee on me. [...]
Prophets and Dogs
So Mino and I made the successful transatlantic crossing without any major hang-ups, but a few close calls. There were a fair amount of people along the way who doubted Mino’s right to live in the land of Zion. After waiting in the taxi line at Reagan National in Washington DC, the taxi driver told [...]
