There are several reasons that this is my favorite photo of Oliver Karpas, the darling little Havanese who lived up the hall from me and who died about a week after I made this picture. He was 14 years old and had been deaf and blind for several of those years. But he remained his spunky, adorable self until the very last day. His human, Patricia Karpas, is a woman I find unusually remarkable for many reasons, not least of which is how great a dog mom she was. Oliver was a