In preparation for my weekly podcast feature, I’ve been playing around with all things multimedia. (Thank God for Macs!) As part of this new venture, I just uploaded my first video to YouTube.

It’s a milestone, I think. For someone whose siblings make a living out of filmmaking (production, direction, everything), I’ve been a little slow to embrace the medium. Maybe, just maybe, I’ve finally...

There’s no end to the havoc one’s own body can potentially wreak. Autoimmune disease (where the body’s immune system attacks itself) is one example. Colic in horses, where intestines slither and twist into unnaturally painful contortions, is another.

I mention colic because today’s disaster case was kind of like the dog’s version of colic. I guess you could also call GDV (AKA, “bloat” where...