RIP Sojourner

Sojourner Truth Armstrong Davis, Jennifer&rsquo;s and my Chinese dwarf hamster, died last night. She had lived with a cancerous affliction of the womb, a malady common to her kind, for several months. We had expected her demise soon after the first signs—hamsters rush headlong through all activities, and life itself—but she endured for a season, bearing her disease with the same insouciance she…