They’d been dead for months—magnificent gold and black Koi, each a good foot and a half in length, along with our multi-colored fantail...

I’ve never been one to collect stuffed animals. Can’t say why, exactly. Might be that I’m still scarred by my childhood woolen bear...

She was wild. She was woolly. She was lightning fast, inquisitive, insatiable, determined, independent, courageous, challenging....