Letter From the Desert: Heart of the Mojave

“Foster her for two weeks,” she said. “It’ll be fine,” she said. “She doesn’t even bark,” she said.

My friend Taura had been after me a couple weeks earlier to adopt a pair of sweet small dogs from her rescue. She had a booth at the Joshua Tree Farmers’ Market most Saturdays, and would bring a dog or two each week to serve as poster children for collecti…