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...introduction to the wonder of dogs came from my wife Robyn. She's Australian. And Australia, as lovingly recounted in Bill Bryson's In a Sunburned Country, has the craziest, wildest, deadliest, meanest animals on the planet. In a place where every spider and squid can take you down faster than a sucker-punched boxer, you cherish niceness in the animal kingdom. And they don't come nicer than dogs...
...Robyn started us off slowly. She got us a border collie, Hugo, when our son was about 6. She knew that would appeal to me because the border collie is the smartest species on the planet. Hugo could 1) play outfield in our backyard baseball games, 2) do flawless front-door sentry duty, and 3) play psychic weatherman, announcing with a wail every coming thunderstorm...
...aging and housing," says McNickle, "is long-term care. And home sharing is an option that brings in an informal support system, re-creating, in some cases, a family structure." Baby boomers may be the perfect candidates. "This is a generation that enjoyed communal living in the 1960s," says Robyn Stone, executive director of the Institute for the Future of Aging Services in Washington. "As they age, they may be perfectly amenable to living with non-family members--more so than the current aging population--if it means being able to stay in their own homes...
...eighth decades. He conquered television with a brace of specials in the late 50s. He turned to straight acting and won an Oscar nomination (his first!) for his performance in "The Towering Inferno." In his 81st year he took a wife less than half his age: thoroughbred jockey Robyn Smith...
Meanwhile, Gowl finds in her role a passion and humor that only an actress of her skills could unearth. Her and Anderson’s interaction while he tries to gain the attention of the beautiful Johanna (Boston Conservatory’s Robyn Kemp) is hysterical...