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    Think A Little

    … on putting your work ‘out there’

    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’... Read More

    Tags: musings, humor, secrets to happiness, selling the family home, home selling

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    Think A Little

    … on risk and reward

    Yesterday morning I was hanging out in the hotel, getting some work done when I heard from Number One Son Sam, who was practicing... Read More

    Tags: musings, humor, photography, joy, New Orleans, Cafe du Monde, French Quarter

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    Think A Little

    … on pondering along with an understudy

    Meet The Understudy – the at-the-ready stand in for the Sam’s now-crunched automotive star (unable to go on). This is her, prior to meeting her... Read More

    Tags: wedding planning stress, musings, empty nest, humor, photography, New Orleans, NoLA, selling the family home

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    Laugh A Little

    … on the rand cove monster

    So… yesterday. One of the things that is hard to resist, even when I am yearning for more time under the covers, is the... Read More

    Tags: Nessie, musings, river otter, comedic writing, maine, comedy, humor, photography, Southport, spring in maine, beaver

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    Think A Little

    … on an awakening

    There are so many firsts this year, now that Self Proclaimed Perfect Boy, Gabe has headed off to college. Some I anticipated, but others... Read More

    Tags: musings, maine, humor, photography, Southport, boothbay, spring in maine

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    Laugh A Little

    … on a wedding destiny-ation

    When we were done restoring The Inn, our place that was an inn during the late 1800s and early 1900s but is not an... Read More

    Tags: old barn restoration, musings, maine, humor, acid etching, acid stained floor, barns, concrete barn floor, maine barns

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    Think A Little

    … on sticking the landing

    I don’t usually write about news stories. I have… when they’ve struck my fancy. I wrote about the Batkid based on what I’d seen in the... Read More

    Tags: musings, humor, photography, grief, aging, Driving Miss Norma, Miss Norma

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    Laugh A Little

    … on being mocked

    I am wondering if I get enough respect from the non-humans around the Dingle household. Blaze, as a royal, is a pretty entitled beast.... Read More

    Tags: mockingbird, mockingbird in winter, musings, maine, humor, photography, bird photography, maine birds

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    Laugh A Little

    … on the morning after

    Well good mornin’! I got a few messages last night, letting me know people were with Marshal in his moment of profound disappointment that... Read More

    Tags: Stella, winter in new england, musings, humor, photography, Dunstable, marshal dillon dingle

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    Laugh A Little

    … on a crushing disappointment

    Clearly Mother Nature has underestimated our newly-minted intrepid reporter. Uh… he knows math! There are not 24 inches of snow out there and, as the darkness... Read More

    Tags: marshal dillon dingle, german shepherd dog, german shepherd in snow, musings, german shepherd, humor, photography

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    Laugh A Little

    … on it picking up a bit

    So, uh… it’s begun to pick up a little bit around here. Since our last report, with pictures taken before noon, snow has continued... Read More

    Tags: german shepherd, humor, photography, musings

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    Laugh A Little

    … on checking in!

    Okay, here’s the deal. It’s snowing. Still. Apparently, in New York City, they are disappointed because they are only getting a ‘glancing blow’ because Stella... Read More

    Tags: comedy, humor, photography, german shepherds in snow, german shepherd dog, Stella, winter in new england, musings, german shepherd

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