Ask Strider: This week, the Dog About Town says everyone is invited to Ashland.news, and everyone should be invited to a family dinner, no matter what their dietary preferences. As long as we’re all grateful for what we’ve got. And he means it, too.
Ask Strider: A reader suggests that Strider would make a great president, but the Dog About Town demurs. Also, there’s an update about Woody the Puppy Intern. He’s now Woody the Dog, and it’s time for him to find his own footing out in the world.
Ask Strider: This column, a reader asks how Strider deals with bullies. Another reader sends good wishes and praise. And a third reader asks the burning question: Pizza with pineapple or without?
Ask Strider: A reader asks if Strider has some advice for getting along with the “cats” in his life. And why does a human who has everything bother being angry at others? Good questions for Strider!
Ask Strider: A reader wants to know why a dog advice column is taking up space when the world is on fire. And another reader asks if Strider is prepared for a fire on his home turf. As usual, our Dog About Town does the best he can to pour water on the flames of anxiety.
Ask Strider: Our advice columnist loves getting praise and feels his failures as much as the next dog. But as long as he’s loved, who cares?
Ask Strider: Our advice columnist turns to the problems of making friends and keeping them. As usual, he counsels restraint in troubled friendships, and asks the Old Cedar Tree what to do about making friends in the first place. The Old Cedar Tree has interesting thoughts on the subject.
Ask Strider: In this column greeting the new year, Strider is grateful for so many things — people, memories and feelings, good and bad. From an organization that helps dogs on the street, to a reader imagining a chip encoded with a dog’s entire story, to the warmth of kind wishes during sad times, Strider embraces it all. His paw on your foot. Really.
Ask Strider: In this column, our advice columnist urges a frazzled volunteer to slow down and enjoy the winter. He also celebrates the holiday season, which for Strider and Woody is every day they are with their loved ones.
Ask Strider: In this column, a reader wonders how they should handle the end of a loved one’s life. Strider has sad experience of this, and puts his paw firmly on the reader’s foot, to offer what support and comfort his own story might give.
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Ask Strider: A worried older brother asks our advice columnist’s advice. And a dog’s guardian wants to know if there is any hope getting their hat-hating dog to calm down. As always, Strider tries to give words that help!
After a successful production of “The Vagina Monologues” and raising more than $2,000 for Planned Parenthood of Southwestern Oregon, Ashland actor and director Lia Dugal intends for “The Climate Monologues” to premiere in Oregon in late 2025 or early 2026 at the Bellview Grange in Ashland.
It’s complicated.
Herbert Rothschild: Whether visualization and intention by themselves can effect broad social change is impossible to determine, but the question merits sustained consideration.
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