What did the essays in Extraordinary Dogs teach you about people and the human spirit?.After reading the essays in Extraordinary Dogs, how have the meanings of the following words and emotions changed for you: Love, hope, joy, compassion, faith, healing, courage, hero, volunteer, and community service?.What did the stories in Extraordinary Dogs teach you about the connection between people and dogs or other animals?.How did these first-hand accounts of the dogs and handlers impact the way you previously thought about these events? Many of the essays in Extraordinary Dogs take you behind the scenes of some of the country’s biggest headlining tragedies and disasters.What were the most inspiring and impactful examples of courage and heroism to you personally within these essays? How did these stories affect your understanding of courage and heroism? Every dog and handler in Extraordinary Dogs exemplifies courage and heroism in various ways.Do you currently have, or have you ever had, a pet or other special animal in your life? If so, what lessons did you learn from them?.In what ways did the stories in Extraordinary Dogs support or change the way you think about dogs or other animals?.What is the greatest lesson you learned from the essays in Extraordinary Dogs?.Which essay or story in Extraordinary Dogs inspired or impacted you the most? Please explain.From personal and headlining national tragedies, trauma, and healing to love, hope, courage, compassion, service, faith, connection, and everyday heroism, the following discussion questions will allow you to further explore and actively engage with the stories shared throughout the book. Read individually or collectively, among the 40 essays in Extraordinary Dogs there several launching points for discussion about the numerous questions and topics we all confront in our lives every day. Their moving stories and beautiful photographs are an unprecedented glimpse at Comfort Dogs and Search and Rescue Dogs, along with bomb-detecting TSA dogs and canine ambassadors from across the United States. She lives in Portland, Maine.Stories From Search and Rescue Dogs, Comfort Dogs, and Other Canine HeroesĮxtraordinary Dogs portrays more than 50 working dogs, along with the police officers, firefighters, veterans, and other trained volunteer handlers who serve side-by-side with them. Jenny is represented by Jamie Chambliss and Steve Troha of Folio Literary. She never leaves home without a trusty pair of adventure pants and a waterproof ukulele. She teaches craft seminars and creative writing courses at Stonecoast MFA, Maine Media Workshops, The Telling Room, and elsewhere and guides creative writing-focused outdoor expeditions in collaboration with Hurricane Island Outward Bound and Adventures in Good Company. She is the Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at Seguinland Institute, where she facilitates university level creative writing intensives based around craft, climate change, and the outdoors.
Jenny’s 14 years as an outdoor guide have brought her all over the globe leading backpacking, sea kayaking, cultural exchange, winter adventure, and river expeditions from the Peruvian Andes to the wild waters of her home state of Maine. A 2019 Maine Literary Award finalist and Pushcart Prize nominee, Jenny has held artist residencies at Monson Arts, Hewnoaks, Norton Island Residency for Writers and Artists, the KISMET Foundation, the Ellis-Beauregard Foundation, Feathered Ink, and Chulitna Lodge Research Institute. Her freelance writing connects readers to the earth, celebrates the creativity of the human spirit, and centers around inclusivity and representation for adventurers and athletes who hold identities traditionally excluded from outdoor media. Jenny’s award-winning nonfiction has appeared in Creative Nonfiction Magazine, Backcountry Magazine, SLICE Magazine, Appalachia Journal, Maine Magazine, Decor Maine Magazine, Hippocampus Magazine, Camas Magazine, Stonecoast Review, and the anthology Awake in the World, v. Finding Petronella, Jenny’s debut book project, traces her 2014 solo trek across Finland following the footsteps of a legendary woman beyond the Arctic Circle. Her body of work explores themes of outdoor adventure, wilderness, environment, vulnerability, risk, and joy and reminds people, when they forget, that they are alive. Jenny O’Connell is a writer, outdoor guide, speaker, and educator.
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