I’m sitting in an old wooden Adirondack chair on our dock. The wind ruffles my shirt’s flutter sleeve. And a random wake from across the channel arrives beneath me, causing the floating dock to bounce and jostle and creak and moan. Off in the distance, I see it. Poo Island. [cue ominous music] From the [...]

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Hullo. Miy name is Bobb. Do you remembber me? I am the Alfa dawg here. I sumtimes get on Momm’s computer and writ a blogg post. I havnt been herre in awile becuz Momm has been bizzy. But todayy I got Momm to leve her awffice by getting Scruf to barrk. (And lett me tell you [...]

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Greetings from the new house. We’ve been here just over a week, and we’re starting to feel settled. True, the movers managed to mix up all our basement stuff and cram it floor to ceiling in the storage room. (Christmas decorations buried under 20-year-old photos, anyone?) And true, we couldn’t find the silverware until Day [...]

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I know, that post title seems to make NO sense. But it’s in keeping with a) where I am at the moment; and b) the most common theme on my blog. Also, it’s from a sketch that Charlie was in at church years ago. He was a slick New Yawk agent for a kind of [...]

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So I guess it’s about time for me to publish a post again. With my new “schedule” (i.e. no schedule) for work, blogging keeps getting bumped down the priority list. And every post that does get published begins to sound the same. Almost like I’m using a template or fill-in-the-blank form. Hmm. I may have [...]

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Hello from La Petit Puppe’, the daycare for the discerning puppy owner! As you may remember, we have a new puppy. After three weeks in her new home, Tess has done her best to leave her mark on everything inside. Wow. I haven’t had a puppy since Callie was little in 1996. Over the years, [...]

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One day. One whole day’s worth. That’s how much freedom I got to experience with the start of school. Well, technically, it was a day and a half. But that doesn’t matter; what’s important is that I’m an idiot. The details of my descent into dementia aren’t really relevant. Okay, one detail is totally relevant. [...]

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On Twitter last week, my lovely friend Sarah laughed at my use of the word “stabby” to describe my mood at the time. (Stabby: A word that I can’t take credit for but am totally willing to be considered creative for using.) Anyway, I was feeling stabby about traffic in the Atlanta metro area, which [...]

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What you are about to read is NOT fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is 100% accurate. This kind of thing really does happen here. Way too often. Abby was upside-down on the couch again. Stomach to the seat, legs against the back, head hanging down toward floor. THUD. Her head made floor [...]

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As you can imagine, this week has felt a little bit full. With Callie Dog’s passing early Tuesday and keeping kids home from school so they could “grieve” (which looked an awful lot like playing and bickering and researching breeds for our NEXT dog), I had to spend Wednesday and today catching up. So I’ll [...]

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