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    Laugh A Little

    … on rocky balboa (at 11 months)

    This is the raw photo of the champ. Eventually it will make its way, in black and white, onto a full-blown movie poster. There will be big, white capital... Read More

    Tags: great pyrenees, sports, musings, comedic writing, german shepherd, yellow lab, bernese mountain dog

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    Laugh A Little

    … on a name for a dog

    Once upon a day in-or-about the year 1999, I found myself pulling off an exit on Route 95 and into the parking lot of a state liquor store in... Read More

    Tags: musings, comedic writing, everyday life, family, german shepherd, pet loss

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    Laugh A Little

    … on watching television

    Every morning in Maine, I come downstairs and my very first chore is to move around the house, opening up the windows and let the super clear, salty air... Read More

    Tags: musings, comedic writing, everyday life, family, german shepherd, labrador retriever, yellow lab, bernese mountain dog

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    Laugh A Little

    … on t and marshal (part two)

    I’ve never written a ‘part two’ to anything before. How do you start this? I was just watching Gilmore Girls and the episode started with, “Previously on Gilmore Girls”... Read More

    Tags: family, pet loss, musings, comedic writing, everyday life

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    Laugh A Little

    … on t and marshal (part one)

    Did you know that there was a study done recently that showed that Facebook can contribute to depression?  Yep. Now, I have to add a quick caveat here and... Read More

    Tags: musings, comedic writing, everyday life, family, german shepherd, pet loss

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    Think A Little

    … on gardens (and getting to Maine)

    Approximately 8 years ago, my nearly perfect husband and I were in the midst of continuing a decade-long search for ‘The Maine House”. He had grown up in Leave-It-To-Beaverville... Read More

    Tags: The Inn and gardens, musings, everyday life, family, gardens, maine

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    Laugh A Little

    … on best friends

    This is a shout out to all the ladies out there (Not all the single ladies, as that would require weird reversed jazz hands and dancing…plus, really, how many... Read More

    Tags: musings, comedic writing, everyday life, family, friends, fiftieth birthday, girlfriends

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    Laugh A Little

    …on Fred

    Ah, Labs. The author Jon Katz, when he posts on his blog (bedlamfarm.com) about his black lab, Lenore, challenges his readers not to smile when they look at his... Read More

    Tags: yellow lab, musings, comedic writing, everyday life, family, labrador retriever

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    Laugh A Little

    … on puppies in repose

    This post should really be entitled, ‘…on puppY in repose’. As in singular puppy. Singular nine-month-old puppy. For the record, nine month old puppies never feel singular. Ever. So... Read More

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

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    Laugh A Little

    … on she who is the bunny blaze

    It’s her. I know it’s a dark pic, but look closely. You are actually getting a chance to observe – nay – marvel at She. She who is the... Read More

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

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    Laugh A Little

    …on PAWnderin’ vs. Ponderin’

    It occurs to me that I may have made a somewhat not insignificant (yep, I wrote it and I’m sticking to it…. take THAT Mr. Mcguire-grade-8-english-teacher!) error in naming... Read More

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

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    Laugh A Little

    … on my fridge

    When we moved to the Disposable Shack in 2004, we were riding the wave of good economic times and not thinking too much about resale value. This was going... Read More

    Tags: musings, comedic writing, everyday life, family, friends, home design

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The Inn

Our house in Maine. It is not an inn anymore (hence the “a private residence” on the sign out front) but it was, in the early 1900s.

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