https://chriscarazas.com/about/https://chriscarazas.com/assets/images/about-hero-1440.webpChristopher Carazas and Shadow seated together overlooking an amber landscape at sunsethttps://chriscarazas.com/assets/images/shadow-paw-print-snow-kingston-640.webpShadow's paw print in snowhttps://chriscarazas.com/assets/images/katie-card-love-and-strangle-640.webpKatie's handwritten card: Overall, I love you more than I want to strangle youhttps://chriscarazas.com/book/https://chriscarazas.com/assets/images/book-hero-1440.webpA repeated figure moves from a dark interior toward an open door and amber horizonhttps://chriscarazas.com/assets/images/now-that-im-still-here-book-cover.webpCover of Now That I'm Still Here by Christopher J. Carazashttps://chriscarazas.com/assets/images/shadow-with-memoir-evening-light-1200.webpShadow resting in warm evening light beside a copy of Now That I'm Still Herehttps://chriscarazas.com/assets/images/katie-card-ridiculously-happy-1200.webpHandwritten card from Katie reading: You will never understand just how ridiculously happy your existence makes mehttps://chriscarazas.com/buy/https://chriscarazas.com/assets/images/buy-hero-1920.webpThe physical memoir stands beside three layered paper purchase inserts in an amber and charcoal collagehttps://chriscarazas.com/assets/images/shadow-with-now-that-im-still-here-books-1200.webpShadow resting beside a stack of copies of Now That I'm Still Here and a chewhttps://chriscarazas.com/assets/images/now-that-im-still-here-book-cover.webpCover of Now That I'm Still Here by Christopher J. Carazashttps://chriscarazas.com/evidence-that-i-mattered/https://chriscarazas.com/assets/images/katie-handwriting-ridiculously-happy.webpKatie's handwriting: ridiculously happy your existence makes mehttps://chriscarazas.com/assets/images/archive-contact-sheet.webpContact sheet of Katie cards, Shadow photographs, paw print, and the memoirhttps://chriscarazas.com/assets/images/katie-card-no-good-words-1200.webpHandwritten card from Katie: There really are no good words for this. Except maybe swear words. Like lots and lots of swear words.https://chriscarazas.com/assets/images/katie-card-ugly-christmas-sweater-1200.webpHandwritten card from Katie: May your ugly Christmas sweater not be confused with a Cosby sweater.https://chriscarazas.com/assets/images/katie-card-love-and-strangle-1200.webpHandwritten card from Katie: Overall, I love you more than I want to strangle you. #winninghttps://chriscarazas.com/assets/images/katie-card-ridiculously-happy-1200.webpHandwritten card from Katie: You will never understand just how ridiculously happy your existence makes me.https://chriscarazas.com/assets/images/katie-birthday-card-next-year-1200.webpHandwritten card from Katie: At least you’re not as old as you will be next year. Happy birthday.https://chriscarazas.com/assets/images/katie-card-president-sucks-1200.webpHandwritten card from Katie: Chris, I’m sorry the president sucks. But everything WILL be alright.https://chriscarazas.com/gazette/https://chriscarazas.com/assets/images/shadow-bow-tie-sky-1200.webpShadow wearing a striped bow tie beneath a blue sky, presented as editor in chief of the Plymouth Sentinel and Canine Gazettehttps://chriscarazas.com/gazette/latest/https://chriscarazas.com/assets/images/shadow-bow-tie-sky-1200.webpShadow wearing a striped bow tie beneath a blue skyhttps://chriscarazas.com/https://chriscarazas.com/assets/images/now-that-im-still-here-book-cover.webpCover of Now That I'm Still Here by Christopher J. Carazashttps://chriscarazas.com/assets/images/home-hero-1920.webpA person and a German Shepherd sit together facing an amber horizon in a layered paper collagehttps://chriscarazas.com/assets/images/shadow-german-shepherd-bow-tie.webpShadow, a German Shepherd, wearing a striped bow tiehttps://chriscarazas.com/assets/images/katie-wing-mural.webpKatie standing in front of a colorful mural painted as wingshttps://chriscarazas.com/assets/images/shadow-paw-print-snow-kingston-1200.webpA German Shepherd paw print in snow, surrounded by overlapping boot printshttps://chriscarazas.com/assets/images/katie-card-no-good-words-1200.webpHandwritten card from Katie reading: There really are no good words for this. Except maybe swear words. Like lots and lots of swear words.https://chriscarazas.com/meet-katie/https://chriscarazas.com/assets/images/katie-wing-mural.webpKatie standing before a colorful mural painted as wingshttps://chriscarazas.com/assets/images/katie-card-ridiculously-happy-1200.webpKatie's handwritten card telling Christopher that his existence made her ridiculously happyhttps://chriscarazas.com/meet-shadow/https://chriscarazas.com/assets/images/shadow-at-lakeshore-1800.webpShadow looking across the water from a sandy lakeshorehttps://chriscarazas.com/assets/images/shadow-puppy-madagascar.webpShadow as a young puppy sitting on a tiled floor in Madagascarhttps://chriscarazas.com/assets/images/shadow-young-portrait-madagascar.webpYoung Shadow looking directly at the camera in Madagascarhttps://chriscarazas.com/assets/images/shadow-bow-tie-sky.webpShadow wearing a striped bow tie beneath a blue skyhttps://chriscarazas.com/assets/images/shadow-beside-cairn.webpShadow sitting beside a tall stone cairn in the woodshttps://chriscarazas.com/assets/images/shadow-mountain-trail-companions.webpShadow and another dog resting on a rocky mountain trailhttps://chriscarazas.com/assets/images/shadow-paw-print-snow-kingston-1200.webpA single paw print left by Shadow in winter snowhttps://chriscarazas.com/plates/https://chriscarazas.com/assets/images/archive-contact-sheet.webpContact sheet showing Shadow, Katie cards, the memoir, a paw print, and book inventoryhttps://chriscarazas.com/podcasts/https://chriscarazas.com/assets/images/podcast-hero-1440.webpA studio microphone and pop filter stand among layered pages, amber light, and a drawn waveformhttps://chriscarazas.com/assets/images/katie-handwriting-everything-alright.webpKatie's handwriting: everything WILL be alrighthttps://chriscarazas.com/press/https://chriscarazas.com/assets/images/shadow-with-now-that-im-still-here-books-1200.webpShadow beside a stack of copies of Now That I’m Still Herehttps://chriscarazas.com/reviews/https://chriscarazas.com/assets/images/reviews-hero-1440.webpAn open handwritten book rests on a dark desk beside dried flowers and layered paper fragmentshttps://chriscarazas.com/assets/images/katie-card-no-good-words-1200.webpKatie's handwritten card: There really are no good words for this. Except maybe swear words. Like lots and lots of swear words.https://chriscarazas.com/assets/images/katie-handwriting-swear-words.webpKatie's handwritten phrase: swear words, like lots and lots of swear wordshttps://chriscarazas.com/road-to-2000/https://chriscarazas.com/assets/images/road-hero-1440.webpA road made of books leads toward a small figure and an amber sunhttps://chriscarazas.com/assets/images/shadow-paw-print-snow-kingston-1200.webpA paw print in snow crossing human boot printshttps://chriscarazas.com/assets/images/shadow-with-now-that-im-still-here-books-1200.webpShadow beside a stack of copies of Now That I'm Still Herehttps://chriscarazas.com/sample/https://chriscarazas.com/assets/images/now-that-im-still-here-book-cover.webpCover of Now That I'm Still Here by Christopher J. Carazashttps://chriscarazas.com/writing/https://chriscarazas.com/assets/images/writing-hero-1440.webpA dog sits beside a writing desk covered with pages, a notebook, and a coffee cup near a bright windowhttps://chriscarazas.com/assets/images/katie-card-president-sucks-1200.webpHandwritten note from Katie to Chris reading: I'm sorry the president sucks. But everything WILL be alright.https://chriscarazas.com/assets/images/katie-handwriting-everything-alright.webpKatie's handwritten words: everything WILL be alrighthttps://chriscarazas.com/writing/losing-your-identity-after-loss/https://chriscarazas.com/assets/images/writing-desk-1440.webpA writing desk arranged as a layered literary archivehttps://chriscarazas.com/writing/the-diagnosis-ceremony/https://chriscarazas.com/assets/images/writing-desk-1440.webpA writing desk arranged as a layered literary archive