2020, Here I Come

Photo by Jude Beck on Unsplash

My hound’s nose is nestled against my left foot. I am shoeless, wearing black, red, and yellow plaid stockings (they’re not as obnoxious as they sound), so she can sniff to her heart’s delight my foot, freed from tight shoes all the day long, which is just about her favorite thing to do in the world. She collects our socks too, of course, pulling them from where they’ve been tucked in shoes or tossed in hampers. We have the biggest missing sock collection…