I’m Larry Barkan.  I love dogs. I never had a dog as a child because my parents thought they would make the house “dirty” (they were right).  Consequently, I had a pretend dog, a German Shepherd who I talked to mostly in the bathroom. I’m sure a psychiatrist can explain my choice of this room for the conversation.

If you scroll through the posts,  you’ll see some of my history with dogs. Annie is my third dog and first Golden Retriever. Our first two dogs had been saved from the streets. My wife Carol bought Annie from a family whose Golden just had a litter. She was a puppy when we got her. I had never gone through training a puppy and I was unsure I wanted to.

Of course now I can’t imagine being without Annie although, as she gets older, my imagination runs wild between despair that I will lose her and desire that she live forever.

She is my forever dog as are my first two dogs, Sable and Katy who have long since departed from this earth. I’m blessed to be loved by Annie.

Professionally, I teach various leadership and management topics and I am an author. You can learn about me and my books at larrybarkan.com and conflictresolutiontraining.net