The leash may have been gone, but the bond we'd built over so many thousands of miles could never be unhitched. When Mom let me off the lea

The little cove wasn’t a bad place to be shipwrecked. The cliffs shielded the beach from view so passing ship would never see you burying yo

"Seriously, what's gotten into you?" Mom asked as we walked back to the kitchen end of the car-house. "I'm calling this whole trip off if yo

With all the trip's mysteries already solved, Mom might follow her wandering mind and get stuck in its darkest corners like a Roomba until t

I sat in the back seat, staring at the sky and wondering how it could be so cruel as to ignore me on my birthday.

Schrödinger's Law follows the no harm/no fowl principle: as long as you use a short leash, don't wake the owl chicks, and leave no clues,

Since we’re all tied together, it comes down to a vote about whether we chase critters or no. That's called democracy.

I paused between thundering barks to listen for screams of terror and maybe the ratta-tat of his paws as he sprinted away.