If a dog is less than 20 pounds, it can't pull a wheelchair. It can't guide an adult.

I anticipate we won't have enough signatures to qualify, but I can't be sure yet.

ADA issues are ones that a lot of counties don't think about when drafting dog-specific ordinances. With service dogs, especially mobility assistance dogs like the ones that pull wheelchairs, there are physical ramifications to sterilization.

My work is being destroyed almost as soon as it is printed. One day it is being read; the next day someone's wrapping fish in it.

Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us.

The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else . . . was to be indifferent to that difference.