picture of Jordie This, I am proud to say, is Jordie, the sweetest dog in the world–really Mahatma Gandhi in a dog suit, although he has gotten very old and a little bit confused by the way things work.

For instance, lately he will come into a room where we are reading or watching television, and look completely baffled as to just who we might be. It’s not until one of us speaks to him that he seems reassured that–oh, yes! It’s those people I’ve lived with for the last eleven years! The ones that feed me!

But speaking of food, he has never yet met a carrot he didn’t love. (He thinks carrots and pieces of ice are treats.) Hard of hearing as he is, he never misses the rattle of the bag of carrots–or even the opening of the refrigerator door. That he knows better than he knows his own name.