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    Laugh A Little

    … on recovered grampa and dogs who choose poo over rabbits

    “If the dog hadn’t stopped to shit he’d have caught the rabbit.” Yep. Grampa’s back. He and Granny drove up to see his surgeon... Read More

    Tags: comedic writing, everyday life, family, comedy

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    Cry A Little

    … on saying thank you

    Back in February of 2005, my beloved New England Patriots were playing the Philadelphia Eagles in the Super Bowl and we were about to... Read More

    Tags: just ponderin', Thanking Veterans, Veterans, Veterans Day

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    Laugh A Little

    … on it all being greek to me

    About a week ago, I got a text from number three son Jack. I should probably point out that number three son Jack is... Read More

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

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    Laugh A Little

    … on an old house and a sign maker named Tim

    A few weeks ago, I got an e-mail from Tim Kearns. I’ve never met Tim, but it is no longer rare to do business... Read More

    Tags: comedic writing, everyday life, maine, comedy

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    Laugh A Little

    … on an empty nest, temporary ocd, and calvin and hobbes

    I’ve written about being a mama bear, even a bristly one.  Protecting cubs, advocating for cubs, and the occasional mauling of a particularly obstinate... Read More

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

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    Laugh A Little

    … on her pies and a golden tassel

    Her pies. This conversation started out Friday night with Number One Son, Sam calling from New Orleans to let me know that he was... Read More

    Tags: comedic writing, everyday life, comedy

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    Think A Little

    … a poem on a weathered tree, for weathered humans

    Weathered I stopped today beside the old tree, its branches peppered with fall’s last leaves. The ground beneath a carpet of gold, each fallen... Read More

    Tags: comedic writing, comedy, poem

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    Laugh A Little

    … on loving football and being feminist peewee pervert

    My nearly perfect husband had made me a roaring fire in the fireplace. Chicken corn chowdah (a Dingle Family fall staple) was on the... Read More

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

  • Laugh A Little

    … a poem because I walked into a falling leaf

    Today I walked through a breeze of leaves swirling and whirling and dancing with trees, who bustled and leaned and reached and grasped, trying... Read More

    Tags: autumn, fall, poem

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    Laugh A Little

    … on fall, my red rubber coat, and skip to my lou

    Fall is my favorite. Oh my Gosh, do you know what I just realized? It’s after noontime. We can have a glass of wine,... Read More

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

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    Laugh A Little

    … on a homecoming, a nearly dead husband, and a plea

    Over the past few days, things here have been pretty dang busy. There have been backs and forths to the hospital to visit Grampa... Read More

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

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    Laugh A Little

    … on loving an old yankee man (part two)

    Months ago, I wrote my first post that had a ‘Part Two’, and I remember that I was completely flummoxed regarding how to start... Read More

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

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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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