WE NAMED HIM LINCOLN, after the Lincoln Monument off I-80 near the Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest. One, because he was the color of a new penny, and two, because the day we met him, he wore the same serious expression of our 16th president.
Earlier in the summer, I had answered an online ad from a young woman who wanted to re-home her dog, a floppy-eared spaniel mix. My husband, Michael, is not on any social media, but wanted a dog. I messaged with the woman, and then she wrote to say she had changed her mind. I forgot about the ad and the little face in the pictures. But months later, she messaged again: Did
