I make my little jest, but I'm sure Otis and Roxy are as happy to be with Gail Konop Baker and her family as the Bakers were to greet the new arrivals a few weeks ago. Especially after I read the story about why they didn't get a puppy last year, a story that will undoubtedly find its way into Baker's memoir, Cancer is a Bitch: Reflections on Midlife, Mortality, Motherhood and Marriage, which is being published by Da Capo next fall. In the meantime, she's participating in "season two" of The Debutante Ball, a group blog for authors whose first books are about to be published.