To Dance With the White Dog

Sam Peck's children are worried. Since the "saddest day" - the day his beloved wife of fifty-seven good years, Cora, died - no one knows how he will survive. How can this elderly man live alone on his farm? How can he keep on driving his dilapidated truck down to the fields to care for his few rows of pecan trees? And when Sam begins telling his children about a white dog, as white as the pure driven snow, that seems invisible to everyone but him, his children think that grief and old age have racked their father's mind.