assured waterside apartments

• Going to Extremes

So I knew what these dogs were worth. A few montiis previously, I had attended one day of a court case in a nearby county, a local sensation. A man's sheepdog had been accidentally killed by a neighbor. He was sued for $50,000, which was die amount of work die owner calculated die dog would have produced in his later years. Everyone I knew felt this was accurate, as did the jury. The defendant's only argument was that any dog dumb enough to get himself in the way of a piece of farm equipment should be worth no more than $35,000. The judge agreed, and even the owner conceded the point, and tiiat was the settlement. I often reflected on tiiis case when hearing about yet another friend's dog who had run tiioughdessly in front of a car. The swim to the raft reminded me of George Orwell's ac...

... clumsy dogs every weekend in tiieir apartments. This animal lived in a plum thicket and her fur w...Mae assured me the snakes were extremely poisonous. I dipped m...Emboldened, the neon glow of Bah Dah's Waterside Bar beckoned. All heads turned as our fantasy of b...

• Santa Fe Reporter
• August 22, 2009