Stumbling Into My Wise Old Sage Era

Surely this much calamity can't be normal.

A few weeks ago, my 12-year-old dog Buster walked into a chair.

This would have been easy to ignore, because I have three children and they are chaotic and thus my house is chaotic unless they’re asleep, and sometimes even then. The children walk into chairs, tables, walls all the time.

But Buster doesn’t. I immediately clocked the anomaly and observed as…