Mordecai Siegal Columns

January 1, 2000 Say It Again, Sam

One of lower Manhattan’s busiest thoroughfares is Houston Street. Hold it, guys. New Yorkers pronounce it, HOUSE-ton Street. Recently, I…

January 1, 2000 The March of Thyme

As we leisurely stroll down life’s bucolic lanes and roads, with a lollygag here and a vegetative gaze there, resembling…

January 1, 2000 A Midwinter Night’s Dream

This column is reposted in celebration of the life of Mordecai Siegal, a longtime goodnewsforpets.com columnist and friend who passed…

January 1, 2000 Dogs, Divas and Delights

The cutting chill of winter is slowly, grudgingly giving it up for spring which is lurking somewhere just beyond the…

January 1, 2000 A Cat in the Hood

When I was a married man, my wife and I owned a summerhouse on the south shore of Long Island…

January 1, 2000 The Cat Days Of Summer

With my birthday in late July, I am left with only one more year as a sexagenarian (look it up,…

January 1, 2000 Dog Soup for Dummies

In a galaxy far, far away, we lived on MacDougal Street when it was the coolest street in America. The…