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Once Upon a Blog… A Writer and Her Dog Traveled, Ate Chocolate (not the dog), Chased Wild Animals (not the Writer), and Got Cooped Up Together in a House…

In a galaxy far far away, New York City, Bayside, Queens, to be exact, I wanted to be a writer… now here I am 3,000 miles away in Nevada babysitting my dog … We are cooped up for at least another month. She is mending from a fractured femur bone that she acquired from being hit by a car in August… so you will understand hopefully why I am frothing a little bit. You try being on restriction with a puppy dog for a month and pretty much housebound 24/7 and see how you behave…

Currently, she is in her normal habitat, on her blankets, tethered to the closet, me, I am tethered to my phone and computer… occasionally, she lets me go out to forage for food, cash, gas and other necessities of life, and of course, chocolate… oh, she doesn’t get to eat it, but I HAVE to… so pardon me, dog, but 20+ years later I am a published writer and newsletter editor… I have written travel guides, articles for newspapers, newsletters, magazines, trade journals, web copy, online newsletters, ezines, write press releases that get published and much more… last week, I got someone published online in Entrepreneur magazine and now here I am sitting and watching you sleep… yawn… don’t lick your paws… and other unmentionables… there must be a life lesson in here somewhere… shoulda got a cat… hah…I had two cats for five years and one ran away ten years ago…

While I am here, listening to the Grand Pooper sneeze, snore, woof, bark, and occasionally growl at me, not in a mean way, but in a get up and take me outside Now kinda encouraging wagging her polka dot tail kinda way…

I thought I’d write about our travels together this past spring and summer… she was stalking bugs, running after birds, rabbits, llamas, sheep, horses, deer, cats, a few skunks and goats, as well as other dogs, capturing bugs, and digging holes in the sand on the dunes at the beach, while I was stalking chocolate… Dark chocolate, Organic, Fair Trade, rich, deep and creamy with nuts, ginger, sassafras, caramel, alcohol, fruits, lavendar, and all kinds of good tasting food of the gods… in California, Oregon, and Nevada, mostly… Earlier this year, in February, I found yummy chocolates in Hawaii, but my dog stayed in her backyard where she belonged… although she did escape a few times I heard… But starting in March, we escaped 95 degree heat in Las Vegas, and launched our Spring and Summer of Travels…

Unlike me, she doesn’t enjoy being alone… her Dalmatian canine instincts make her a social butterfly, friendly to the point of annoying. She even enjoys going to the vet, just to see all those vet techs, vets and animals, or maybe she is happy to get away from me at this point… in public, she wags her tail at people I would never EVER say hello to in a million years… but then she licks people’s feet and sniffs other dog’s butts, and other activities I would never engage in either…

Since she does not enjoy being alone, she gives me the evil eye any and every time I leave the room, never mind the house, unless she is in doggy dreamland… but she has been known to wake up just to give me that look… the one that tells me, you are abandoning me, and for what good reason?

Jewish and Italian mothers could learn a lot from my dog. That looks says I am a poor puppy dog and I need to be loved… DON’T LEAVE ME ALONE. Well, dog, if I bring you back a treat, a snack, a chew toy, or some other dog idea of heaven, will you let me out puhlease, puhlease, puppy, oh please… LET ME GOOOOO… and please don’t get in trouble while I am gone…

You know, I could have and was supposed to put you in a cage, a crate the vet calls it, I call it puppy jail and because I didn’t want to listen to you whine, I have not done so… but push me too far…

I don’t think so, human, hmmm, well, I think I will chew up the blanket, eat your glasses, and any cardboard or paper you leave lying around, and I can lick myself silly… aha, go away, see if I care… and when you get back, you’ll be sorry…

ok, here we go… we traveled from and to a lot of places in California, Nevada and Oregon… well, mostly California… and I am going to write about them… just for the heck of it… (get the pun? my name is Hecht)… oh geez… everyone else in the known universe has a blog, I am a writer, I should have one, too…

By the way, you can visit my website at: http://celiasue.hecht.googlepages.com/home

and about my chocolate travel book at:  http://celiasue.hecht.googlepages.com/Itravelforchocolate