by Linden Gross | Nov 2, 2023 | Lessons From my Dogs, Writing
A few months ago, I felt a hard lump when I was petting my English cocker spaniel puppy, Moke. I tried hard not to panic. He’s my sixth dog, so I’m used to health challenges–some minor, some as serious as they get. I chose to adopt a watch-and-wait...
by Linden Gross | Sep 7, 2023 | Lessons From my Dogs, Writing
Yup. Life happens when we’re making other plans. It had been a stressful week. I just needed to decompress, so I reached out to my friend, Laura, who, it turned out, needed some downtime even more than I did. We agreed to take our dogs for a walk in the...
by Linden Gross | Jun 15, 2023 | Lessons From my Dogs, Writing
Some dogs have superpowers. Sophie’s was making the people around her feel like they were the most important beings on the planet. She would gaze at whomever she was by with eyes full of love and compassion, and then try to get a little closer. She didn’t...
by Linden Gross | Jan 26, 2023 | Lessons From my Dogs, Writing
“Wow,” I said to myself. “My puppy hasn’t destroyed a single thing and we’ve gotten through teething.” Some thoughts should never be put into words, let alone verbalized. That’s just asking for trouble. Sure enough, at the age...
by Linden Gross | Dec 29, 2022 | Lessons From my Dogs, Writing
Winter equals snow. Especially this winter in Bend, Oregon. We went from a perfect and all-to-short-lived fall to cold temperatures and white stuff falling from the sky. My three dogs love it. In the summer, they complain about the heat and race from shadow to shadow...
by Linden Gross | Nov 18, 2021 | Lessons From my Dogs, Writing, Writing Life
I’ve written professionally for 40 years now. Although I’m sure my math can’t be correct since I can’t possibly be that old, I have learned a thing or two about the writer mindset during all that time. Some of those lessons have come, as...
