Dog Blog

I have maintained a log of our training miles since the fall of 2014. It’s an excel spreadsheet, with a tab for each month of...

I ended my last blog on a rather upbeat note in a year when I should have known better. At the end of our first...

Last year’s racing season ended with the crushing disappointment of a scratch from my big race, the Can-Am 250. For two weeks in early March,...

In mid-February, we packed up 14 dogs, two mushers, one handler and a toddler and headed to the UP200, a 230-mile race starting and ending...

We are a week away from running the UP 200, a 250-mile race in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan that runs from downtown Marquette through...

In 2003, I signed on with my friend Elissa to be one of the YMCA Camp Menogyn mushers for the winter. Menogyn leases dogs for...

As the parent of one child who has little experience with other small children, I often find myself surprised by the many facets of watching...

Mushers pay a lot of attention to their dogs’ feet. When buying or breeding a sled dog, we often ask, “Do they have good feet?”...