Dachshunds are the best! Pauline is my second one. My other was half cocker-half long hair dachshund. Still mourning him! I live in Berlin so I know a lot of wire-haired and standard and long hair and they are such awesome dogs.

I’ve heard this a lot from people who have had or who know a Puli! Funny but I’ve never met one. Pauline is a clever character. You can see the wheels turning all the time!

Close! She looks very much like one but she’s half long-hair dachshund, half Puli, the Hungarian herding dog with dreadlocks! We have to keep her fur clipped or it turns into a wild mess. This gives her an unusual look.

Truly. What a thoughtful and big-hearted gift. There is nothing quite like holding a warm, handmade mug first thing in the morning. My kitchen is full of Heath mugs and bowls and plates, and others from potters in Los Angeles. They are what make the kitchen feel so homey.

Pauline on neighborhood watch

Beautiful!

Same. I used to have a section in the bookstore dedicated to their editions. Now I have a shelf dedicated to them at home. Lovely inside and out.

So good.

Thank you! This book is resonating with me on so many levels. The exact kind of book I’d be hand-selling to everyone if I still owned a bookstore. Also, the @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social classic cover is its own work of art and I love that they published this.

I’m spellbound by it. The cadence, details, and insights are a balm. Also feeling a strange sisterhood as I was born in Detroit, have lived in LA, and just handed in my latest novel to my agent about a writer on the run from her grief. So happy to have found this book. Reading Surrender next. Bravo.

Damn. What a terrible loss. I often use the opening of Winter’s Bone to illuminate for students what language can do. And I lost my husband to pancreatic cancer so I know what his family has suffered and my heart goes out to them. Such a heartbreak all around. 💔

Yes. Cracks you wide open.

Such a favorite!

Beautiful.

Good grief. Thanks for posting.

What? I was born and raised there and never knew this! Very cool!

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And yes, how awful that she would have to spend a minute of what is left of her precious life addressing her monstrous cousin.