Wren Schaser
Work with animals has been a central theme in Wren’s life. She has dedicated years to riding and training horses—including several years as a jockey. She currently excels at training her dogs in agility, fly ball, scent work, tracking and tricks as well as helping others with their dogs on her daily dog trainer pages. Wren considers herself extremely fortunate to be living with the current incarnations of all four of her soul dogs. She loves the healing arts and is especially skilled with homeopathy. For hobbies, she enjoys time in nature, hiking, music and reading. When she’s not training her dogs you can find her hanging out in the hammock in her back yard in Phoenix, Arizona.
“To walk quietly until the miracle in everything speaks is poetry, whether we write it down or not.”
― Mark Nepo
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
–Ralph Waldo Emerson
“And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”
— Kahlil Gibran
Review of A Big Little Life by Dean Koontz
I love dogs and I love books, so naturally, I enjoy dog books. That said, A Big Little Life was an outstanding dog book. I had not previously read anything by serial author, Dean Koontz. Although, his books have always been on my radar, I just hadn’t taken the opportunity to pick one up. This book, made me curious, and I definitely plan to read some of his other books in the future.
A Big Little Life is about Dean Koontz’s first dog, named Trixie. She is a larger-than-life, golden, who I now feel I have actually met in person, just by reading about her. Trixie helps Koontz with his writing and he shares in this book information about the fiction books that he is writing while he has Trixie, and how her influence pushed him to live bigger and take on more challenging writing projects.
Mr. Koontz does an amazing job describing Trixie’s personality and her preferences. A quote from the book that I absolutely loved is, “…there’s going to be great anguish, so you live fully in the moment with her, never fail to share her joy or delight, in her innocence, because you can’t support the illusion that a dog can be your lifelong companion. There’s such a beauty to the hard honesty of that, in accepting and giving love while always aware it comes with an unbearable price.”
The Koontz’s pay an unbearable price, as do we all, in the end with our pets, but we are so much better for knowing and loving them. I feel like a better pet owner for having read about Trixie, her joy and her innocence. I highly recommend this book.