Nov 18
Thanksgiving 2010 will be Baby Sky’s first, and our opportunity to introduce her to the notion that our family doesn’t eat animals (not to mention that other historical story we’ll be correcting). There will be no greyhound corpse on our…
HIGH IN THE CLOUDS, by Paul McCartney, Geoff Dunbar and Philip Ardagh is supposed to be for Grades 2-4, but its themes, vocabulary and syntax are more advanced. From Barnes and Noble: “Wirral the Squirrel is homeless. The evil Gretsch…
Oct 13
I’ve been under the radar for a bit, anxiously awaiting the adoption finalization of Baby Sky. But now that she’s officially ours, I feel like I can write about a topic that means a lot to me without the fear…
Aug 25
An Animal Person reader wrote me with the following question: There are many species of cichlids in Lake Victoria that are on the verge of extinction, and most are hardy and small enough to be kept in an aquarium. There…
Yesterday, in the comments of An Affront to the Idea of Family, Brian wrote: I understand your concern for those cows that were beat by that man and the unfortunate death of all the cows that died in the snow…
Aug 12
In “Move to Limit ‘Factory Farms’ Gains Momentum” in today’s New York Times, we learn that farmers in Ohio have agreed to phase out gestation crates within 15 years and veal crates by 2017. I won’t get into whether I…
Aug 10
I’m not one of those people who thinks family is composed of only humans or humans who are biologically related. That’s one of the reasons adopting wasn’t a stretch for me at all mentally. The idea of family is currently…
Jul 25
Thanks, once again, to James LaVeck and Jenny Stein of Tribe of Heart for kindly and carefully bringing attention to what should be a stunningly-obvious moment of hypocrisy by groups that exist to advocate for and save animals. I understand…
Jul 15
A comment left yesterday on a two-year old post, by None Please presented a phrase I’ve never heard before and I’d like to address it. “In the Washington metro area, we have a BIG deer problem. I have a question…
Jun 16
“Creature Quotes: Advancing Toward Freedom For All Species,” compiled and edited by SBH Clay, is now available. From the Introduction: “Humans are fascinated by animals. . . . For all our devotion, though, we sometimes seem not to recognize the…
May 26
After all this time it seems that . . . the Island’s sideways world was a purgatory of sorts where the Oceanic 815 survivors were supposed to learn more lessons or go one way or the other (good or bad),…
May 25
I’ve decided that 20 lessons is a good number to stop at, and today I’ll discuss what are probably the two most controversial ones, about the animal rights movement. Lesson #11 The Appeal of Cliques The first six Lessons Learned…
May 24
Yesterday’s lessons learned were primarily about blogging. Today they’re about language. Lesson #7 Obsessing over language can become counterproductive. And this, coming from a person with a doctorate in Applied Linguistics. I can talk about language all day, every day….
May 23
I’ve officially been blogging for four years (1,329 posts and 5,441 comments) today, and as I (re)ponder whether I will continue, I’d like to present some lessons I’ve learned about blogging, veganism, people, “the movement,” language and . . ….
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