Hello All,
It is time to start packing up for the Super Pet Expo in Edison, NJ this weekend. We have a booth (#431) and I’ll be there Friday afternoon and all weekend to chat with you, answer questions about The Masterson Method and your dogs. I’ll also be doing demos every day on the Main Stage (see schedule below in Super Pet Expo information).
National Reading Month
The big news in March is that it’s National Reading Month! I went online to see what it’s all about and found this:
“National Reading Month is an important opportunity to encourage reading every day and to foster a love of books for children across the country. To celebrate reading throughout March, take a look at the ideas and resources on this page…”
So, if you were to read “children across the country” to include “adults with child-like curiosity”, and the admonition to “take a look at the ideas and resources on this page” to include "this" page, then this would be a list of important books to read:
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
The Catcher in the Rye JD Salinger
Moby Dick Herman Melville
War and Peace Leo Tolstoy
The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Beyond Dog Massage Jim Masterson and Dr. Robin Robinett, DVM
(Tip: You don’t have to read them in exactly that order!)
I also looked up the history of National Reading Month. I skipped the temptation to go to YouTube and went straight to the following:
“March was designated as National Reading Month to celebrate Dr. Suess. He was born on March 2, 1904. Interestingly enough, Dr. Suess was not a doctor at all, he was a writer and an illustrator of very popular children’s books including The Cat in the Hat and How the Grinch Stole Christmas. He received a Pulitzer Prize in 1984 for his contribution to the education of America’s children and their parents.”
Again, if you take "parents" to mean, well… "more mature people like us". And take The Cat in the Hat to include other pets such as, well… dogs, or even foxes, then Beyond Dog Massage would be right in there with such inspirational titles as:
Fox in Socks
Yertle the Turtle
On Beyond Zebra, and
On Beyond Dog Massage (which has yet to be written)
AND, if you looked further then you might find we fit in with such classics as:
Call of the Wild Jack London
Animal Farm George Orwell, and
Beyond Dog Massage Masterson and Robinett (available wherever classics are sold)
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