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The Blind Leading the Blind
Copyright 2012 Kathrine PiperRead Part One Here.If you wish to read more, please donate at least $10 to get the remaining episodes. Make sure you include your email address. The proceeds will go...
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Chapter Two: Nepal, the Practical Option
Kathmandu is best known in the west as the last stop on the fabled “Hippie Trail” of the 1960s and 70s, which saw thousands of young people hop the Magic Bus to Asia. Imagine a world where you could...
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Chapter Three: Too Many Dogs
Chapter Three is now available to subscribers. Read Chapter One here. Donate at least $10 to Alice's travel fund and get every episode delivered to your mailbox.“Whose dog is this?" I asked a nearby...
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Chapter Four: Loving Puppy Free to a Good Home
"Look. No. Bonding," I said. I said it mostly for me, of course, but I thought maybe she’d understand the tone of voice--firm, friendly, but not too friendly. "I’m not your mother or your best friend....
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Chapter Five: Not Sick, Zen
To Do List:Buy Milk Bread Bananas Candles Call Shirley Make Pup love other people.... Read Part One Here.
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Chapter Six: Poop, Glorious Poop
A cold-eyed neighbor lady, whom I came to know as the Tibetan Buddhist Bitch and in whom I saw not a single drop of kindness the whole time I was there, couldn’t let us pass without a sneer or a...
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Chapter Seven: A Home at the Top of the World
I could not have invented a better home for Pup. Sushma had grown up with dogs and the whole family were animal lovers. Her father was an agricultural officer for the Nepali government and worked with...
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Chapter Eight: Two Broke Girls
Past quixotic failures haunted me. I couldn’t count how many times I’d followed my heart off a cliff, for men, for causes, for friendship, for colleagues, for stray animals. Human rights projects I’d...
View ArticleThe Artists
If you wish to purchase original artwork, prints or note cards by the artists contributing to the story, please contact them: Kathrine Piper (A personal favorite of mine is this one. Kath can also...
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Chapter Nine: A Friend of a Friend of a Friend
Several of her female students, young teens, had disappeared. Shirley was frantic. Her investigation revealed that for weeks the girls had been secretly groomed by a young European woman they had met...
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Chapter Ten: Alice
Dechen was learning English at school and she spoke it well enough to ask questions about Canada and understand the answers, as long as we spoke slowly (or haltingly) and supplemented with lots of...
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Chapter Eleven: First Family
On a street full of motorcycle garages, Alice stopped and pulled me towards a tiny lane. I shook her chain to pull her back, but she was adamant. When I tried to pick her up, she nipped at my face,...
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Chapter Twelve: Murphy's Law
We had a workable plan……Until I got an urgent email from Sally, rescinding her offer.“Do you know about the bandhs [strikes] that have been happening? Basically there are constant bandhs in that part...
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Chapter Thirteen: A Crash Course in Nepali History
When Gyanendra was born in 1947, a court astrologer reportedly told his father, then the crown prince Mahendra, not to look upon Gyanendra because it would bring bad luck. The cursed baby was sent far...
View ArticleRefugee Dogs: Rescuing Afghan War Pups
"Fred Armitage went to Afghanistan to protect people. What he didn't expect to protect was abused, homeless dogs left for dead in a war zone." enRoute MagazineThis is a very moving story about a...
View ArticleAlice in Photos
My camera broke in India in 2011, so I have had to rely on others for photos and artwork of Alice. Here are a slew.
View ArticleAlice--FAQ
What kind of dog is she?Nepali street dog. I have no idea what her breed/s is/are, but she looks like a standard Indian street dog. You see similar dogs all over Asia and South America. There is a...
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