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    Laugh A Little

    … on tasty words

    Okay, so another cool thing along with the close up of sparkle water above. Half Kid Jack is taking a beginning drawing class because he is a senior in... Read More

    Tags: musings, comedic writing, comedy, humor, synesthesia

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    Laugh A Little

    … on cherub torture 101

    I’ll tell you what the hell that is. That is photographic proof of cherub torture. Every morning since Gabe-the-Self-Proclaimed-Perfect-Boy became an only child… Okay, technically he is not an only... Read More

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

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    Laugh A Little

    … on man cave oscars and a near explosion

    Mac and I were watching the red carpet procession at the Oscars last night (Ya, it says 11:34 a.m. above, but that was the time I took the photo.)... Read More

    Tags: Red Carpet, musings, comedic writing, everyday life, family, comedy, humor, ADD

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    Laugh A Little

    … on glen who isn’t a lawyer and a life-altering list

    Late yesterday morning I returned from Maine with The Shepherds and my olfactory senses were happy-fied by evidence that Glen-the-friend-and-painter had been true to his word and dropped by... Read More

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

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    Laugh A Little

    … on being a v.i.p. at dingle diner and real mail

    One really bizarre thing about living in a small, New England town is that every important decision is not made at Town Meeting or at the Town Hall, but is really... Read More

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

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    Laugh A Little

    … on old yankee men as mouse props

    Did you happen, by any chance, to read the title of this post as, ‘old yankee men as mouse poops’? No? Never mind. I got my handy-dandy-mysterious-magical lens-changing-camera a... Read More

    Tags: musings, comedic writing, family, comedy, grandparents, old yankee man, humor

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    Laugh A Little

    … on an old dog waiting for his old-soul boy

    Monty Dingle. Handsome Old Man. Handsome Old Yankee Man. Canine style. A few months ago, he was fading. Our 132 pound, 10 1/2-year-old Bernese Mountain Dog seemed to have pushed... Read More

    Tags: musings, comedic writing, everyday life, family, bernese mountain dog, comedy, kids

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    Laugh A Little

    … on nothin’ but thank you

    Thank you. For coming on over. For visiting so often. From so many places around our ever-spinnin’ planet. For following the blog, for commenting, for telling your friends, for... Read More

    Tags: comedic writing, comedy, humor

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    Laugh A Little

    … on keeping the home fire burning

    The rag-tag militia would arrive in ones and twos from all over the country. Many left a day early to beat a winter storm that threatened to keep them... Read More

    Tags: musings, comedic writing, sports, comedy, soccer, humor

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    Laugh A Little

    … on the freakin’ medicine cabinet

    This post was going to start out with me telling you about how super hero-ish I am. Which I am, for sure, but now that’s not what it’s going... Read More

    Tags: musings, comedic writing, comedy, humor

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    Laugh A Little

    … on an orb, a decision, and a response

    Did you drink your coffee yet this morning? Well, you may want something stronger. Maybe in Irish coffee? Well you are in the right place. With a last name... Read More

    Tags: comedy, ghosts, humor, orbs, comedic writing, maine

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    Laugh A Little

    … on english as a second language and sister katherine

    Sadly, if you have just pulled up your chair with a cup of coffee or glass of wine (or both) hoping to read about nun-based hilarity, you are going... Read More

    Tags: comedic writing, everyday life, girlfriends, comedy, humor, English as a Second Language, ESL

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Should People

You know them. They know how things “should” be. What you “should” say, and do and wear and eat and and and and and (and they give me a hive).

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