About this blog: This blog explores life in Palo Alto with our dogs, cats and other pets, as well as the urban wildlife around us, the title being a reference to Sharon Creech's lovely story, "Love That Dog." I grew up in Palo Alto surrounded by ...  (More)

About this blog: This blog explores life in Palo Alto with our dogs, cats and other pets, as well as the urban wildlife around us, the title being a reference to Sharon Creech's lovely story, "Love That Dog." I grew up in Palo Alto surrounded by animals, and my two sons have grown up that way too. A Paly graduate, I wrote my personal essay for Harvard about walking my Lab at the Baylands — I don't remember what I said for Stanford Law, but I did keep a dwarf rabbit in Crothers Hall. After retiring from a Silicon Valley law practice, I shifted gears to a slower lifestyle, and found myself the humble Padawan learner of my pets and backyard animals in this regard. Today, I keep chickens and train dogs, just as I did in the 1970s. And I spend time volunteering for SEAN, a non-profit working on college readiness for all in our community. I'm a former member of the board of the Friends of the Palo Alto Animal Shelter and I speak for myself and not for the organization.  (Hide)