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… on advenditures

June 28, 2017 by Lisa Dingle

This morning, super duper early, I headed out on an adventure. Because the other day my friend Chris (a.k.a., ‘ChrisChrisChris‘) called and asked me if I was comfortable getting up very early in the morning (to which I replied, “Um, I am kind of an expert at it as I have stumbled out of bed and nearly fallen over the cliff in front of our house – on many occasions – trying to take pictures of the sunrise.” (I did not […]

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… on signs and flamingos, but mostly signs

June 19, 2017 by Lisa Dingle

It all started with a pink, plastic bird – one of those ones with funky metal sticks for legs, so you can stand them in your dirt. Now. I am totally cool if you love these plastic birds in your yard. I have actually been known to point and smile at them in other folks’ yards. And I totally supported Mac’s high school senior project where she and her partner ‘pinked’ yards with oodles of flamingos for charity (okay… you […]

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… on touching dreams

June 15, 2017 by Lisa Dingle

So… you know we moved to Maine. Well… I know I know I moved to Maine. No… it’s not the boxes still unpacked in my bedroom (I’m ignoring them, hoping they will go away. But they are not. Dicks.) And no… it’s not because I can smell that heady mixture of salt and pine and spruce. Nope. It’s not because I can hear – right now in fact – the bubbubbub of a lobster boat’s diesel engine as its crew drops their […]

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… on delayed processing

May 25, 2017 by Lisa Dingle

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 of pots and pans, mixed with folders and stacks of my ever shifting collection of greeting cards, some in plastic so they all slide off of each other toward some other pile, making an even more diverse Jumble. Which is also called a Politically Correct Jumble. I realized last night, talking […]

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… on drop offs (and drop outs) and pick ups

May 20, 2017 by Lisa Dingle

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 (yep, he flunked his first time through), and me more figuratively – but only because I never actually attended something called ‘obedience school’. Being a rather irreverent participator in life, however, it fits perfectly. Which is probably why I am currently in the middle of the selling-closing-moving of either a house […]

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… on making sense of self

May 5, 2017 by Lisa Dingle

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 to expect when we shopped for a wedding dress. Turns out, you can find one you like and then they make it just for you! (I know, I know, other people might know this when they are born – like some sort of bridal genetic memory or something, but it’s all […]

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… on every man for himself

April 28, 2017 by Lisa Dingle

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 his name and inferred occupation you thought he was Italian. Common mistake. And also racist. But this is not about Tony Soprano not being a rat. This is about an actual rat. One I never got a photo of for reasons that will become clear to you as I tell you a […]

Categories: family, just ponderin', musings, my perfect cherubs, zombies • Tags: comedic writing, comedy, everyday life, family, humor, just ponderin', musings, New Orleans, NoLA, rats, zombies

… on putting your work ‘out there’

April 27, 2017 by Lisa Dingle

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 yard. My first. I know that people sell their houses every day, but I also know that people are stressed about selling their houses every day. And now I am in that boat. We’ve sold houses before. Exactly two. The first was our condo in New Hampshire. We were so excited, […]

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… on risk and reward

April 20, 2017 by Lisa Dingle

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 with The Understudy* and Real Life Princess Avery a little farther uptown. I can now say ‘a little farther uptown’, not because I finally figured out the difference between further and farther (and don’t get me going on physical vs. metaphorical because if you have been reading for any length of time you know that […]

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