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    Cry A Little

    … on tucking in a house

    It occurred to me yesterday, alone in the house I have mockingly referred to as ‘The Disposable Shack’… After the family packed itself into two cars, with two dogs... Read More

    Tags: joy, moving, prose, musings, photography

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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… or books and chords. Jumbles... Read More

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

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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 suppose it’s about him, literally... 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 Disposable Shack for so long.... Read More

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

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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, I had no idea what... Read More

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

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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 know, I know, based on... Read More

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

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    Think A Little

    … on putting your work ‘out there’

    It’s totally freaky. Cars are going by more slowly and I swear they can see me swimming in my fishbowl. Yesterday, a ‘for sale’ sign went up in our... Read More

    Tags: humor, secrets to happiness, selling the family home, home selling, musings

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    Think A Little

    … on risk and reward

    Yesterday morning I was hanging out in the hotel, getting some work done when I heard from Number One Son Sam, who was practicing with Olive*, then hanging out... Read More

    Tags: humor, photography, joy, New Orleans, Cafe du Monde, French Quarter, musings

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    Think A Little

    … on pondering along with an understudy

    Meet The Understudy – the at-the-ready stand in for the Sam’s now-crunched automotive star (unable to go on). This is her, prior to meeting her new human way down yonder... Read More

    Tags: musings, empty nest, humor, photography, New Orleans, NoLA, selling the family home, wedding planning stress

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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 sunrise. The Inn* faces east…... Read More

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

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    Think A Little

    … on dawn

    We live on a ball that weights 13,170,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 – thirteen septillion, one hundred seventy sextillion – pounds… and yet floats in space. When it turns just so, a star’s light shoots across…... Read More

    Tags: everyday life, maine, photography, joy, Sunrise in Maine, sunrise, musings

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    Think A Little

    … on a good morning

    The little beach on the island is quiet in the early mornings and late afternoons, even in summer. But in the midst of the busy season, the shells and... Read More

    Tags: musings, everyday life, maine, photography, spring in maine

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