A Note About Parker

We don’t deserve dogs. Ms. Charlie Parker. Nikon D90.

I don’t have the experience or mental strength to begin this any other way than with the thing that is on my mind.

I had to put a dog down today.

Actually, that’s not true: if I was to begin this with what is front and center in my brain, I’d have to begin again…

I was holding Parker’s soft, furry head as gingerly as I could as she coughed her last breath. That’s what I’m…