A Weird Holiday & a True Story With a Sprinkle of Normal
This is a true story about a 2nd grader and a dog. I'll call the boy Billy. And the dog's name is Chance. He's a registered therapy dog who visited Billy's 2nd-grade class every week. The red bandana is Chance's therapy dog uniform that tells the world he's on the job. Every week* Chance listens as children read stories to him. Because he's a small dog - only 12 pounds - he has determined that in order to be close enough to the child, he needs to be right up on the table, lying beside the book. This way, while each child reads to him, all the child has to do is glance up from the page to look into Chance's gentle, dark eyes. It never matters to Chance whether a child…
