Off-Leash: Heaven in Brooklyn (excerpt)

"It was a cool spring Sunday morning the first time we went out. Doxy ran to her friend like she hadn’t seen him in weeks, and they immediately began doing the most beautiful thing, something I had not seen in a long time, nor quite understood the importance of missing: Running."

This essay, published on Feb 17, 2009 on Mr. Beller's Neighborhood, is forthcoming in an anthology from the site, Lost & Found: Stories from New York (Vol. II), which will be published by Mr. Beller's Neighborhood Books and distributed by W.W. Norton & Co.