Monthly Archives: July 2007

A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby

Tessa: Nick Hornby is one of those writers that has the ability to make me laugh out loud. Hard. Page by page I chuckle. In About a Boy and High Fidelity Hornby has the ability to weave great narrative tales … Continue reading

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It Really Does Take a Village

Tessa and Dave: There’s that saying that it takes a village to raise a child. A parallel saying is that it takes a village to save a dog. In our case it couldn’t be more true. Whenever weird freaky things … Continue reading

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Dog Survives 4 Surgeries for Foreign Body Removal and Lives to Bark About It

Dave &Tessa:Wow, just when most of you were thinking that we didn’t have too many happy things to report we’re happy to say that Reuben can come home today. He’s skinny, he’s got lots of bald patches from surgery and … Continue reading

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Things I love about Reub

His gorilla head. His ridiculously long legs. The whites of his eyes and how they look like diamonds when he looks at me a certain way. How even though he has slept on the bed for 51/2 years he never … Continue reading

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A story about Reub.

Tessa: When I met our dog Reuben 51/2 years ago he was 10 weeks old. For the first week I had him I felt shock at the awesome responsibility I had undertaken and wondered if I should take him back. … Continue reading

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Our Reuben

Dave: This is our little hero that is struggling through each and every hour right now. He’s such an awesome dog…. he’s in so much pain but doesn’t complain about anything. After six days without food, he’s just started to eat … Continue reading

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What the hell is wrong with Reub?

Tessa: On Wednesday Dave and I brought Reub to the vet to find out what was wrong with our fella. Sad, droopy, drooling, barely able to walk, not having eaten in two days and trying to drown his sorrows in … Continue reading

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