There is a wise and priceless saying, something like “It doesn’t matter much what you pay for a dog – money won’t make him wag his tail.” And, Lordy, I thought about that yesterday when, on the ...

Ogden Nash was my favorite of all the poets I studied growing up because he was funny. My favorite short poem was a two-liner that went, “The only trouble with a kitten is that – eventually it becomes ...