An old dog sits on a porch looking over a beach and watches as the other dogs in the family head out for the day, then the children, then the parents. Then he welcomes them back. Then he follows them inside. That’s it. For this book, I drew on childhood animals (I had a dog named Homer), and a family house on the shore. I thought how sitting in one spot and observing the world, and being surrounded by family and love is not a bad place to be. Dogs don’t live long. They go from puppies to old dogs fast. My parents have an old dog now, who I used as a model. He is alive now, but when this book comes out he may not be.
Homer will be published in Spring 2012.