How hard can it be to find a girl and an elephant for Christ's sake?
We traveled for two weeks with a pickled hippo.
I just can't. I'm married. I made my bed and now I have to lie in it.
You work hard on a book and throw it out there and then it's beyond your control.
But it all zipped by. One minute Marlena and I were up to our eyeballs, and the next thing we knew the kids were borrowing the car and fleeing the coop for college. And now, here I am. In my nineties and alone.
I think there is just a vein of humanity that really loves animals and really loves to read about them.