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    Think A Little

    … on post traumatic rest in order

    Fred and I are resting today, because it’s been a trying week. Well, I don’t want to minimize it. It’s been a trying week... Read More

    Tags: musings, everyday life, humor, secrets to happiness, teachers

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    Laugh A Little

    … on happenings with a hospitalized Old Yankee Man

    The Old Yankee Man, also known as ‘Grampa’, is home. And he is also bionic, because he has a brand-y new pacemaker. I have... Read More

    Tags: comedy, old yankee man, humor, musings, comedic writing, everyday life

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    Laugh A Little

    … on signs, signs, everywhere premature signs

    I was in Maine for a couple of days this week, surveying the black hole that is not really a black hole, especially not... Read More

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

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    Laugh A Little

    … on meeting ms. matty

    Sometimes, when I take my time and pay attention, the best things happen. This afternoon, Gabe, the self-proclaimed perfect boy was volunteering with a... Read More

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

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    Laugh A Little

    … on death considerations and writing

    Yesterday I went to visit my friends in New York and we spent a lot of the time there talking about writing and the... Read More

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

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    Laugh A Little

    … on the mercy of a genius

    I am an Apple fan. Love the products, love the marketing, love the cool and hip vibe of being one of those people who... Read More

    Tags: apple, technology, musings, comedic writing, comedy, humor

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    Laugh A Little

    … on a sheepish husband and blind fred

    Last night, the Nearly Perfect Husband came huffing and puffing into the Living Room. He was snow-covered and holding a shovel in his hand.... Read More

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

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    Think A Little

    … on real life magic (and joy)

    It’s snowing again. This time, the weather prognosticators are saying we’ll get another foot, maybe more, on top of the three feet we got... Read More

    Tags: musings, everyday life, humor

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    Think A Little

    … on a morning in chic and trendy dunstable

    This morning we woke up to blue skies in Chic and Trendy Dunstable and, after dropping Self-Proclaimed Perfect Boy Gabe off at school, I... Read More

    Tags: musings, comedic writing, everyday life, comedy, humor, photography, cows, Farms

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    Think A Little

    … on a theory of relativity and ‘the great blizzard of 2015’

    When we moved to Australia in 1995, ‘we’ were me, the Nearly Perfect Husband, First Born Mac (then 2 1/2) and Number One Son Sam (having... Read More

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

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    Laugh A Little

    … on when they get it right (ish)

    This morning when we woke up, there was snow. Kind of a lot of snow. We had been hearing that it was coming. And... Read More

    Tags: labrador retriever, yellow lab, comedy, humor, musings, comedic writing, everyday life, german shepherd

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    Laugh A Little

    … on a historic scientific experiment (who ya gonna call?)

    If there’s somethin’ strange In yer big ol’ barn Who ya gonna call? Quantum Physics Repair Service! huh. That so doesn’t work. If there’s... Read More

    Tags: comedy, humor, barn restoration, comedic writing, everyday life

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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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