November 2017 There are new garage doors to the “barn” that comprises our garage. The two wooden doors were relics from the early 1960s....

3 July 2017 When we first brought Chance home, we knew that this beagle had some very large paws to fill, although his paws are quite...

October 2016 We welcomed home Chance Beaumont Milligan on 14 October 2016, a rain-soaked Friday in northern California. Born on 2 July 2016, my Lucky Charm is quite a little guy!! We are still early days in the knowing of our new beagle but little Chance is a Lanbur and already he promises to live up to his bloodline. It will be a wonderful walk in the park with this sweet, adorable, intelligent, playful, sensitive, curious, adventuresome and affectionate Chance, our Lucky Ch

November 2015 Our beloved beagle, Bootsie, was a profound source of inspiration for me to complete THE DAWN. On a sunny, warm day in early February 2011, at nearly 14 years of age, he had to leave us. I’d been at work in the midst of revising the scene where Arthur and Camille meet again in Chapter 52. And so the noble spirit of that soulful hound persists until the end of the novel. I would be remiss without mentioning the two abandoned cats that I adopted in the spring of