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    Laugh A Little

    … on another day and another kill room

    Glen and Elias – painters extraordinaire – are hanging out again today, in Dunstable. The photo of the strange hanging jellyfish thing in my dining room is evidence, once... Read More

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

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    Laugh A Little

    … on a wait puppy

    Last night, Sam was writing a paper way down yonder in New Orleans. I’ve mentioned before that Sam is cixelsyd. Just kidding. Dyslexics don’t really see things backwards. Anyway,... Read More

    Tags: everyday life, comedy, musings, comedic writing

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    Think A Little

    … on a maine winter in black and white

    I thought I’d offer a little photographical palate cleanser today. It’s opening day for many baseball teams across the country, including our own beloved Red Sox. For many of... Read More

    Tags: maine

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    Think A Little

    … on snow shadows

    On Monday I headed up to the old Inn to get it stocked with food and warmth in anticipation of my friends Glen and Elias coming up to do... Read More

    Tags: maine, comedy, humor, old house restoration, musings, comedic writing, everyday life

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    Laugh A Little

    … on the freakin’ dalmatian kitchen

    I’m color sensitive. Wait. Is that a thing? Could I have ‘Color Affective Disorder’? CAD? Oh my Gawd, I think I do. I really do! I have suffered from... Read More

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

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    Laugh A Little

    …on flying pig clouds and letting it go (loudly)

    When I was driving home yesterday, quietly, in my car, by myself being all sorts of cerebral,  mentally going over my realization that Aristotle’s theories on mathematics and physics... Read More

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

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    Laugh A Little

    … on comfy socks and… comfortableness

    Uh. Ya. It is too a word. I looked it up. As in, ‘I longed for the comfortableness of my comfy socks’. It sounds like it might be used a... Read More

    Tags: humor, musings, everyday life, family, maine, pet loss, bernese mountain dog

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    Cry A Little

    … on trying to be all graphic design-y

    Many people asked permission to share the poem, Joy Angels,  with family or friends who were losing, or had recently lost, a special dog (or cat… and, in one... Read More

    Tags: pet loss, bernese mountain dog, comedy, musings, comedic writing, everyday life

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    Laugh A Little

    … on loosing my marbles in dreamland

    Stress wreaks havoc on our bodies. I’ve never read an actual scientific study on this myself, but I’m going with it because it sounds logical. Sort of like karma,... Read More

    Tags: german shepherd, pet loss, bernese mountain dog, comedy, humor, musings, comedic writing, everyday life

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    Laugh A Little

    … on missing them, and missing farts

    Hi! I’m so glad we’re here together. It means a ton. Grief, for me, is a little like exercise. There’s the feeling of impending doom when I know it’s... Read More

    Tags: everyday life, german shepherd, pet loss, bernese mountain dog, humor, musings

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    Cry A Little

    … on saying goodbye to a good, good boy

    Yesterday, something changed in our big, old dog. No matter what we did, he was not comfortable. Medications were less effective for less and less time. Texts and phone... Read More

    Tags: musings, everyday life, family, pet loss, bernese mountain dog

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    … on joy angels

    Joy Angels I sat still in the waiting room, my old dog at my feet. The millionth tear slipped from my eye, and traveled down my cheek. I heard... Read More

    Tags: everyday life, pet loss, bernese mountain dog, poem

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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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