When a Scruffy Little Dog Refused to Let an Old Woman Disappear

She hadn’t just refused to disappear. She’d made it harder for other people to vanish unnoticed, too.

In a country where we argue endlessly about programs and budgets and whose responsibility it is to care for whom, it’s easy to treat compassion like a line item. We talk about “the elderly” and “the vulnerable” like categories on a chart, not like the continue reading …