Mary Schwager, “Watchdog Mary,” is a television and print journalist. She has won 17 Emmy awards for investigative and consumer reporting and several honors from the Dog Writers Association of America. You can find her at watchdogmary.com.
Keeping my book collection to only three tall shelves has taken ongoing effort. At least once a year, I’ve had to give the shelves a critical pruning, throwing away titles that contained either incomplete or poor information and donating to my local library books that were of good quality, but not something that I planned to refer to again and again.