Author Archives: Debbie Dunham
Dogged Devotion
Our dogs don’t all like each other. The two little ones like each other and the two big ones like each other, but the little ones only tolerate the big ones and everyone tires of Fen, the 90-pound puppy’s, antics. However, they are a dog family, a pack and I am the leader of that […]
Cat(Dog?)nap
When I was a little girl, my mom would say, “Let me lay down on the couch for just ten minutes.” She’d fall asleep for ten minutes, then wake up refreshed and ready for the rest of her day. I, too, often take a short nap, though mine are usually twenty minutes. These little catnaps […]
The Daily Fen Score
When I traveled to South Korea on a Christmas gift team mission this past December, my husband had charge of the house, including our dogs and Fen, our grandpuppy who is living with us (remember the “S” for sucker on my forehead). As I said in my first post, my husband isn’t exactly a dog […]
Grandpuppies
Eight years ago, when we let our 11-year-old daughter get a puppy, I became a grandma – to a dog! At first, when she would say things like, “Here, Thurman, come see Grandma,” I was a little perturbed. I didn’t feel old enough to be a grandma and I certainly wasn’t planning to have […]
The “S” Stands for Sucker
Editor’s Note: This is the first of what we hope will be several posts for On The Table, a group blog that is an experiment of sorts for us at The Columbian. We’ve had reporters team up on blogs in the past, but until now we’d never had a community- or reader-blog written as a […]