LaVonne Neff > LIVELY DUST

Another day, another puppy-mill outlet. I was distressed to learn yesterday that Naperville, Illinois - the next town over from where I ...

When I saw this book's title in a New York Times  review last month, I thought it might be similar to Jon Katz's engaging 2003 book...

After writing 21 detective novels featuring Commissario Guido Brunetti, it's not surprising that author  Donna Leon needed a break. Sti...

The dog is right - this is  the only Black Friday sale I was interested in. In fact, it's the only Black Friday sale I've ever gon...

Fox News: " Organic Food Has Little Health Impact, Study Says " New York Times: " Stanford Scientists Cast Doubt on Adva...

For details, check out "The Dog Maxed Out My Credit Card" from the November 2, 2011, Wall Street Journal.

"Retirement should involve re-tiring, or putting on new tires and doing even more than before." --Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, who g...

Book publisher's marketing department's hypothetical dream plot, 2012 version: Jacqueline Kennedy's toy poodle, having been tran...

Twenty years ago, a woman in her mid-thirties wrote a book that would become an environmental classic. I finally read it last week. Still in...

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." - attributed to Groucho Marx Alex...

If you've already discovered Spencer Quinn's Chet and Bernie Mysteries ( Dog On It , Thereby Hangs a Tail ), all I need to do here i...

A life dedicated to God's creation is a life dedicated to loving one's neighbor. --Megan Anna Neff Anyone who still thinks evangelic...

One of my favorite memoirs is Caroline Knapp's Pack of Two: The Intricate Bond Between People and Dogs . It's also one of my favorit...

The United States has more pet dogs and more dogs per family than any other country in the world. According to the Humane Society , 39% of o...

I like zoos. Good ones, anyway. When our children were very small, we lived near the San Diego Zoo and went there nearly every week. We now...

"The looming threat of industrial pig, dairy, and poultry farms to humans and the environment," says the subtitle. Marketing co...

There are lots of good reasons to be 100% vegetarian. For one, vegetarians tend to live longer than meat eaters . For 10 others, see my May ...

"You want chicken poop with that steak?" Want it or not, says Animal Factory author David Kirby in an April 9, 2010, Huffington...

"Are you trying to convert us?" asked one of my daughters after reading my recent posts on vegetarianism . Not to vegetarianism, ...

Having just read Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals , I'm in a vegetarian mood. This is not too difficult for me, since I was a v...