Thursday, December 4, 2008

Silence Becomes Me




I've been writing "stuff"--stories, reportage, etc.--ever since I could spell, but in the past year or so I've been silenced. Our dear "keeper" Shepherd, Prudence, passed on in Feb. 2007 and I'm thinking perhaps that was the silencer put on my loud mouth. 

But yesterday a phone call from The Seeing Eye told us we could adopt a 5-yr-old Shepherd; it took us maybe half an hour to decide YES, and next week we drive down to NJ to claim him. 

As he helps us recover from our caninical loss, perhaps I'll recover my literary voice.

We shall see.

2 comments:

Nandini said...

Good luck with your new dog, Don. I can't write without my cats either - and now the new puppy is messing up our writing schedule. I'm so sorry about Prudence, she sounds lovely.

ObiDonWan said...

Prudence was dearest of the dear. And our new dog, River, will be introduced soon... as soon as I get our Christmas Card finished.
-don