Once upon a time, Delaney Walker's life was filled with warmth and love and family and friends, expectations and desires and happiness. Then a disastrous lifelessness set in. Living became painful to him, too painful to endure until the end of time. Delaney, retired after teaching for over thirty years at university level, had become filled with despair and was trying to understand why. On the morning of February 25, 2004, Delaney was afflicted with enough serious mental derangement to warrant a psychiatrist's enrolling him into what Delaney facetiously came to call "The Depressing Society of...

Like the author's other books, this, too, is a miscellany. However, unlike all the others, "Two Yellow Lab Puppies and an Old Guy" aims at humor, even in the discussions that definitely are intended as edification for the reader. Readers might smile, maybe even laugh, at the observations, questions, and conclusions of the most erudite puppies ever to exist.

"How Do You Know If What You Do Is Right?" is a fascinating discussion between Shaker, the male pup, and the old guy. The text contains sixteen discussions of various subjects.

Besides the subject matter is the entertaining back and...