Men hate us. We have, somehow, they think, rejected them. They think, perhaps, we’re lesbian  (how that equates I cannot comprehend). It’s true, we sleep with dogs instead of men - we sleep with dogs because they are our friends.   They keep us warm at night, and mend the holes that men have punched into our souls. We ...

 “We have a lion problem in Spring Canyon,” my neighbor Keri says to anyone who will listen -- neighbors, strangers, wildlife officers. We do not have a lion problem. We are blessed with the presence of mountain lions in the canyon behind our houses. It’s a fairly deep canyon, 200 feet, and two miles long. There are plenty of deer in the canyon, ...