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    Laugh A Little

    … on the acting locally thing

    Okay… I’ve given up. Maybe one day every single thing will be unpacked and put away… but strategy right now for the wedding is... Read More

    Tags: maine, photography, joy, midcoast maine, Blessing of the Fleet, Boothbay Harbor, Windjammer, musings

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    Laugh A Little

    … on signs and flamingos, but mostly signs

    It all started with a pink, plastic bird – one of those ones with funky metal sticks for legs, so  you can stand them... Read More

    Tags: musings, old yankee man, humor, secrets to happiness

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    Laugh A Little

    … on touching dreams

    So… you know we moved to Maine. Well… I know I know I moved to Maine. No… it’s not the boxes still unpacked in my bedroom... Read More

    Tags: musings, maine, humor

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    Laugh A Little

    … on delayed processing

    Get coffee… or wine, then sit down. I’m just sayin’. There are jumbles everywhere in my life right now. Jumbles of books… or chords…... Read More

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

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    Laugh A Little

    … on drop offs (and drop outs) and pick ups

    I’m not sure if that magnet, which sits above Gronk’s* gas tank filler upper door, is about Marshal Dillon Dingle, or about me. I... Read More

    Tags: musings, everyday life, humor, secrets to happiness

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    Laugh A Little

    … on nicknames lived up to

    The Disposable Shack. Disposed. Well, not quite. But now I am thinking it was so unfair to refer to this wonderful home as the... Read More

    Tags: everyday life, family, empty nest, joy, secrets to happiness, just ponderin', selling the family home, home, musings

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    Laugh A Little

    … on making sense of self

    So… there’s this dress. I can’t tell you much about it because it’s a secret. Not being a member of the Wedding Tradeworkers Union,... Read More

    Tags: musings, humor, photography, secrets to happiness, wedding

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    Laugh A Little

    … on every man for himself

    That is not a rat. It’s Tony Soprano, a made man on Southport Island. Tony is, in fact, a mink. An American one. I... Read More

    Tags: musings, comedic writing, everyday life, family, comedy, humor, New Orleans, NoLA, rats

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    Laugh A Little

    … on the rand cove monster

    So… yesterday. One of the things that is hard to resist, even when I am yearning for more time under the covers, is the... Read More

    Tags: maine, comedy, humor, photography, Southport, spring in maine, beaver, Nessie, musings, river otter, comedic writing

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    Laugh A Little

    … on a wedding destiny-ation

    When we were done restoring The Inn, our place that was an inn during the late 1800s and early 1900s but is not an... Read More

    Tags: maine, humor, acid etching, acid stained floor, barns, concrete barn floor, maine barns, old barn restoration, musings

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    Laugh A Little

    … on being mocked

    I am wondering if I get enough respect from the non-humans around the Dingle household. Blaze, as a royal, is a pretty entitled beast.... Read More

    Tags: maine, humor, photography, bird photography, maine birds, mockingbird, mockingbird in winter, musings

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    Laugh A Little

    … on the morning after

    Well good mornin’! I got a few messages last night, letting me know people were with Marshal in his moment of profound disappointment that... Read More

    Tags: humor, photography, Dunstable, marshal dillon dingle, Stella, winter in new england, musings

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Spanky Baby Jesus

An expletive you can utter any time you need an expletive or you want to express surprise (like, “Jesus H. Christ” or “Jumping Jesus on a Pogo Stick”). It came about when I misread my friend Katherine’s description of her toilet paper nativity scene, where she noted her ‘sparkly baby Jesus’. Sad. True.

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