Driving south on 41/Skokie Valley Road through Highland Park, Illinois, the cars ahead of me stop & go, like a line of dogs upchucking uncertainly in unison. During one of the lengthier stops, my truck idles just before a stone block sign at the entrance to a landscaping business. The large red letters on the... Continue Reading →
Scent Trails Through The Finger Lakes
You know that feeling you get when you first start floating in a hammock anchored between two trees? That moment right after you let go of the slight possibility that the hammock strap will break or one of the trees will uproot - that moment where you're weightless, softening up like a stick of warm... Continue Reading →
Ticks, Chicks, And Programming Tricks: Uncovering Your Ancient Code to Improve Your Scent Work Future
No other animal brain comes close to packing the prodigious pontificating power of a human brain. In the blink of an evolutionary eye, humans have created tools to make fire for warmth and safety, and rocket ships to launch ourselves into outer space. We've devised countless drugs to layer on top of our immune system,... Continue Reading →
Muriel’s Message: You Are A Guest In My World
There are a million stories I could tell about Muriel. She had a rough first two years of life, probably experiencing a Mad Max-like hell in central California with desert landscapes and psycho biker gangs. When I adopted her in May of 2007, she had to adapt to really clean glass (face-planting at full speed... Continue Reading →
Earth, Wind & Scent
"Do you remember, the 21st night of September? Love was changing the mind of pretenders While chasing the clouds away... Ba-dee-ya, dancing in September... This post could be about Earth, Wind & Fire - which would be groovy - but my mind is on actual earth, wind, water, temperature, sound, and scent work. The soundtrack... Continue Reading →
The Meez, The Queez, And La Puta Vida! How We Take the Juice of the Real World And Put It Into the Game.
Anthony Bourdain, by his own account, dove deeply into the experience of life, so deeply he couldn't find the surface at times. Reading his book, Kitchen Confidential, and watching his show, Parts Unknown, he is an authentic participant in the blurred edges of life and a reverent witness to the experience of others at those... Continue Reading →
Antifragile Scent Work Dogs
It was April 2020 and my kids & I were heading to the park to fly a kite. On our way, the sky opened up and rained down nature's respiratory droplets upon our faces. For a moment, I longed for the eventual return to close conversation with a friend and the enthusiastic, unintentional ejection of... Continue Reading →
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