Over the next few weeks we repeated the Mushroom demonstration for Tundra five more times. And then a change came over him. Instead of sitting in the window of our bedroom and looking miserably down to watch the pedestrian traffic …

After three weeks of Tundra's not leaving the house, April decided to do something about it. She went shopping at the nearby drug and sundry store, and she came home with a three foot long Water Cannon. The Water Cannon …

As I watched Mushroom jump the fence into his own yard, I thought about the unfairness of it all. Tundra was such a sweet cat, it just didn’t seem right that he had to suffer at the paws of the …

Tundra and Elaine were both homebodies. They liked nothing better than lounging around the house all day. But they also enjoyed sunning themselves in our yard. The houses in our neighborhood were clustered next to each other on tiny lots …

By the time Elaine had accepted Tundra, April and I had assumed that Tundra had finished growing and maturing. Elaine and Tundra were about the same size, but Tundra was more muscular. One day April was brushing Tundra with the …

We were only supposed to watch Tundra for a few months. Tundra’s owner, Jessica, promised that when she found a building that allowed pets then she’d take Tundra back. This sounded optimistic, but knowing Jessica as well as I did, …

When my ex-wife, April, and I were living on Bacon Street, our cats, Tundra and Elaine, begrudgingly tolerated a stray that would periodically wander into our six-foot high wooden fenced yard to sunbathe and panhandle food. The stray was a …

There were many toy commercials on TV that made me perpetually yearn for the products that were advertised. Some of them my mother bought for me, but most of them she didn’t. When she actually did indulge me, I learned …

Growing up in Ramona, I spent a great deal of my time thinking about things I could never have. Television helped me to achieve my sense of endless longing. Toys, candy, soda pop, and sweetened breakfast cereals, I wanted them …

When I was 16 we lived in Ramona on Hanson Lane a few miles away from our community’s small downtown. In the countryside surrounding our town, the houses are spaced remotely from one another, usually by fields that hold cattle …