Author: Michael Murray

Tuesday has been proving to be misty and imperfect. It’s not unpleasant, just slightly damp, but for Heidi, our Miniature Dachshund, it’s a world of dramatic misery. If there’s even the hint of rain in the air, she’ll begin to shiver and moan and write bad poetry. It’s embarrassing, particularly because if I take her…

SOME SUPER-POWERS THAT WOULD REALLY MAKE MY LIFE EASIER 1. The ability to encircle myself with a repellent Dodge Ball force field. 2. The ability to instantly know exactly what to have for lunch everyday. 3. The ability to do my winter boots up lightning quick, even if the laces are frozen or sopping wet.…

Hola! As most of you folks know, Rachelle and I moved into a new apartment at the start of October. Since then we’ve been working like slave dogs trying to get the place semi-respectable. Recently, we felt that we accomplished this goal, and so, with great pride, I decided to make a little “video tour”…

Yesterday, I went down to a butcher in Leslieville to buy some sausages for dinner. It was probably around 6:00, and although it was dark and rainy, it was mild out, which seemed to give the evening a hazy, street-lit softness. At this point in day the neighbourhood takes on a different texture. Some of…

  Heidi, our Miniature Dachshund, relates her dreams: ************************************* I play fetch with four-eye two-leg food giver, and as I chase ball it turn into hot dog and I eat it. Good fetch!! My legs grow long and I get tall tall tall and I stomp city. In dream I falling and falling in air…

For a variety of reasons, I have a large network of friends on Facebook, including some people that I’ve never actually met in person, and others I haven’t seen in years. Still, although we don’t always communicate directly, I feel like I know them all. Over time, through my random encounters with their status updates,…

Heidi (our Minature Dachschund) and I were walking through the school the other day when we came upon a kindly old man and a little dog named Dodger. I took Heidi off the leash, and let her run around with Dodger for a bit, but she lost interest after about two minutes, and so I…

  I’ve always had a way with birds, pigeons in particular. Whenever Rachelle sees me on video, she says that the nervous way I twitch my head and jerk my body around reminds her of a pigeon, and wonders if I might have been one in a previous life. Maybe, I don’t know. However, it…

  Well, Mr. Peanut is still missing. If we had any inkling of the darkness that lurks inside of Jillian, we never would have consented to let her incorporate him into her Halloween costume. She took our precious taxidermied squirrel, and has held him captive in her home for two weeks now, claiming that Mr.…