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    Laugh A Little

    … on signs and flamingos, but mostly signs

    It all started with a pink, plastic bird – one of those ones with funky metal sticks for legs, so  you can stand them... Read More

    Tags: musings, old yankee man, humor, secrets to happiness

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    Laugh A Little

    … on touching dreams

    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... Read More

    Tags: humor, musings, maine

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    Think A Little

    … on landslides and new landscapes

    There’s this song that’s been following me around for about a year, maybe a little more. Creepily showing up at the oddest times, sometimes... Read More

    Tags: musings, maine, photography, secrets to happiness

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    Cry A Little

    … on tucking in a house

    It occurred to me yesterday, alone in the house I have mockingly referred to as ‘The Disposable Shack’… After the family packed itself into... Read More

    Tags: musings, photography, joy, moving, prose

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    Laugh A Little

    … on delayed processing

    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…... Read More

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

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    Laugh A Little

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

    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... Read More

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

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    Laugh A Little

    … on nicknames lived up to

    The Disposable Shack. Disposed. Well, not quite. But now I am thinking it was so unfair to refer to this wonderful home as the... Read More

    Tags: everyday life, family, empty nest, joy, secrets to happiness, just ponderin', selling the family home, home, musings

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    Laugh A Little

    … on making sense of self

    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,... Read More

    Tags: musings, humor, photography, secrets to happiness, wedding

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    Laugh A Little

    … on every man for himself

    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... Read More

    Tags: musings, comedic writing, everyday life, family, comedy, humor, New Orleans, NoLA, rats

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

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

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Spanky Baby Jesus

An expletive you can utter any time you need an expletive or you want to express surprise (like, “Jesus H. Christ” or “Jumping Jesus on a Pogo Stick”). It came about when I misread my friend Katherine’s description of her toilet paper nativity scene, where she noted her ‘sparkly baby Jesus’. Sad. True.

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