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    Laugh A Little

    … on the importance of familial trust

    Yesterday I wrote a blog post about juvenile coping mechanisms when coming up against other humans who have a toxic affect on you. I... Read More

    Tags: comedic writing, everyday life, family, german shepherd, comedy

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    Laugh A Little

    … on the benefit of toxic friendships

    Did you just start reading thinking we were going to go all psychology-ical and discuss friends that are bad for you and how you... Read More

    Tags: musings, comedic writing, everyday life, comedy

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    Laugh A Little

    … on murderous rampages before breakfast

    Have you ever been watching one of those true crime shows on television and wondered what you would do if you accidentally came across... Read More

    Tags: musings, comedic writing, everyday life, family, german shepherd, comedy

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    Laugh A Little

    … on christmas magic despite spiking

    I love Christmastime (I also love that spell check doesn’t autocorrect me when I type it as all one word). I really do. I... Read More

    Tags: musings, comedic writing, everyday life, family, comedy

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    Laugh A Little

    … on the freakin’ egg thing

    It’s holiday time in Dingleville – a smiling family, perfectly behaved dogs, celebratory cherubs…. We are the equivalent of the Whos in Whoville –... Read More

    Tags: comedic writing, everyday life, comedy

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    Laugh A Little

    … on conversations while waiting for the spine doc

    Yesterday, I went with Granny and Grampa to the doctors. Grampa had fallen – and bounced – again a week or so ago, and... Read More

    Tags: comedic writing, everyday life, comedy, grandparents

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    Laugh A Little

    … on camelot and christmastime responsibility

    Well, it’s that time of year again. All year long, I try to fly under the radar. By all appearances, I’m just a regular... Read More

    Tags: musings, comedic writing, everyday life, comedy, kids

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    Laugh A Little

    … on upping the chances of chatting with jesus

    You know how sometimes, you’re amblin’ through life, feeling like you’ve got the grown up thing fairly well worked out? (No, this doesn’t happen... Read More

    Tags: comedic writing, everyday life, comedy

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    Laugh A Little

    … on a bouncing octogenarian. again.

    Yesterday, as I was ho, ho, ho-ing down the hall (side note: Don’t try to mimic a Bawston accent there – taking away the... Read More

    Tags: comedic writing, everyday life, family, comedy, old yankee man

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    Laugh A Little

    … on christmas movies. asterisk.

    Today is a big deal official holiday in Dingleville. It’s Decorating Day. There are fires in the fireplaces, pancakes and bacon have been consumed.... Read More

    Tags: comedic writing, everyday life, family, comedy

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    Laugh A Little

    … on a most thankful thanksgiving

    On Thanksgiving Day 2006, I sat in a chair pulled up to the side of a hospital bed in the Intensive Care Unit at... Read More

    Tags: everyday life, family, seizure

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    Laugh A Little

    … on apples falling from trees

    You know the saying, ‘The apple doesn’t fall too far from the tree’? Ya? You know the horror that courses through your veins when... Read More

    Tags: musings, comedic writing, comedy, kids

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Bathtub Mary

In Somerville, Massachusetts, where I spent the first five or six years of my life (it seems to be hotly debatable in my family), people often put statues of the Virgin Mary in their front yards. And she is ‘protected’ in a lovely arch of white.. which is often … and I am not kidding… a partially buried cast iron bathtub.

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