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If your pet had a theme song, what would it be? I thought of this the other day when Sam was lounging near the entrance to the kitchen, her legs outstretched. Sam has incredibly long legs. It is as if she has no shoulders! That’s when it hit me: “Long Cool Woman in a Black…

As many of us have come to find out, working from home is not as simple or as appealing as we first believed it would be. We can drop in some laundry, do some gardening, take morning coffee on the deck, go off on a midday neighborhood walk. But the reality is we are tethered…

There is the old adage that many pet owners look like their pets. We’ve all seen photos like the one below of a dog owner and their pooch who appear as if they had shared their images in the mirror before heading out together. This one was posted, oddly enough, on the Dollar Shave Club…

Franco, the Golden Doodle needs your help Hello everyone who had been following this blog for my best-selling book, WALKS WITH SAM. I am reactivating this site for a short bit to ask for your help and to SHARE this story wherever you can. My son’s dog is quite sick. Had to have emergency surgery…

From ROUNDFIRE BOOKS, John Hunt Publishing, UK BUY IT HERE Praise for WALKS WITH SAM . . . Publishers Weekly: “Berner’s plainspoken manner reveals moments of true enlightenment. Dog lovers and spiritualists will adore this.” James Dodson, best-selling author of Faithful Travelers, The Dewsweepers, Final Rounds, A Golfer’s Life with Arnold Palmer, and The Range Bucket List : “The poet Wallace Stevens wrote…

Sam’s book is officially out on September 1, 2020. Come celebrate on Zoom. In these unusual times, you have to consider unusual ways to launch a book. So, on September 13 at 6:30pm, CT, Sam is having a big Zoom party and broadcasting live on Instagram. We will officially launch Walks with Sam, and we…