Godspeed, Loyal Heart

We never had a dog when I was a kid. I don’t think either of my parents liked them. I got my first dog, a beautiful Husky with one blue eye, the other brown, when our first two daughters were still very young. We named him “Thor”. He was a better dog than we deserved.

I’ve had many dogs since. My love for Newfoundlands saw four into our lives. One of the…