Michael Baugh CDBC I savor victory every time I pass a Starbucks. It had a tight grip on me. Every day, I pulled into the drive-thru and pulled out my phone with the app. I smiled, paid, took what the big-bucks boss called my “luxury experience,” and drove off. The trouble started with lattes: grande, […]
Michael Baugh CDBC I call Charlie “baby” all the time. He’s not a baby. He’s definitely not a “fur baby” (ugh). He’s a dog. Still, I understand why people drift toward treating dogs like children. We live closely with them. We organize our days around them. They watch us constantly, learn our rhythms, wait for […]
Michael Baugh CDBC In 2003, Jon Katz published The New Work of Dogs. He was prescient. Humans were becoming more isolated, divided, and lonely. Dogs, he predicted, would fill the void, becoming surrogates for the human connections we couldn’t find or keep. Even then, our athletic hunters and protectors were trading in their physical roles […]