An elderly man living with Parkinson’s discovered a shivering senior dog at his gate — and somehow, their unsteady bodies became a source of calm for one another.

group to adopt a senior cat because, as he put it, “Apparently old animals are taking applications from old men.”

Long enough for my granddaughter Lucy to stop drawing our wiggles as something sad and start drawing them as little lightning bolts.

Mabel aged steadily.

So did I.

By her final spring, her muzzle had gone nearly white, and her walks had shortened continue reading …