Another case of a pet potbellied pig (arthritic, no less) being put out to pasture and not in a good way because of needless interference of official and non-official busybodies .   You can see from the photograph how happy this pig is with his 78 year old owner and he isn’t disrupting his neighborhood in any consequential way whatsoever: 
He spends his days [...]

Rare is the war story whose target audience is children.  Rarer still is the children’s war story that is told effectively.  From the get-go, such stories provide so many inherent challenges that writers have a lot of reasons to avoid writing them.  War stories for children run the risk of being too sugarcoated to be [...]

I never met Gwendolyn the pet pot-bellied pig, but I am both sad and happy to learn of her passing.  Sad to have lost a sweet animal who, with her owner, led a campaign against unjust bureaucratic lawmakers in Prince George’s County, Maryland.  She amassed a number of news stories describing her sweet temperament and [...]

I have done a fair amount of traveling in my life.  Just this year I have been to El Salvador, Jamaica, Mexico, Belize, The Caymans, The Netherlands, and Germany.  During my travels, I am always impressed to see how households supplement their food and income by producing something for themselves.  It could be said that [...]

As you may already know, I have taken up the new pasttime of political activism on behalf of pet potbellied pigs and their owners, specifically regarding one pig and her approaching death sentence.  Yesterday I emailed a local councilman with my views on this matter.  Since it could also be looked upon as a manifesto [...]

Gwendolyn is a 20-year old potbellied pig that has been living peacefully with her owner, Pat Brown, since her youth.  That is, until Prince George’s County disrupted that peace.  When Brown first brought Gwendolyn to her home in Prince George’s County, Maryland, zoning laws were broad enough to protect a large variety of animals as [...]