Commentary: What Josie and I learned from Wilbur the pig, Marmota and life and death in a small garden
In the evenings I have been reading to Josie, my 8-year-old daughter, from E.B. White's "Charlotte's Web," and she has taken to watching, repeatedly and obsessively - four times in a row this past week - the 1973 animated film version of the book, which happens to be one of the most important works of advocacy for animal rights ever written.
With the pandemic, Josie has been spending a lot of time with me in the Catskill Mountains, where I live on rocky land on a ridgetop and
