Give Yourself the Gift of a Portrait of All the Dogs from Your Life More than a decade ago, when I was still living year-round in East Hampton, I discovered a dog portraitist of uncanny skill. Her name was Carol Saxe and working only from photographs, she was able to capture the distinctive essence of […]
Dog Talk (9/13/2014) #387: The show is dedicated to Tracie’s godmother Joan Rivers, focusing on Joan’s love of her dogs. The show begins with a eulogy to Joan in the form of Tracie’s 43 years of memories of the many dogs that were part of the family, followed by two previous interviews that Joan did […]
My Godmother Joan Rivers Absolutely Loved Dogs Joan Rivers was my godmother — and her daughter Melissa is my goddaughter. (We came together 43 years ago in Los Angeles, as East Coast transplants, and formed our own patchwork family. My own mother had died when I was only a girl.) It was a cherished relationship […]