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Things I Just don’t Understand, Part Four
Car Bras Seriously. I have no idea why those things some people put on the front ends of their cars are called bras. They don’t hold anything up. They don’t give a better shape to the front end of the car. They don’t make the front of the car look larger than it is in…
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Orange Kitty: An Update
I wrote about the stray cat we adopted in a post titled, “Orange Kitty.” He’s been our cat for a while now and we are all getting along fine … for the most part. Our dog, Maddie, is still not one hundred percent comfortable with OK. He makes her a bit nervous now and then.…
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Home
We’ve lived in our current house for over a year now. Sometimes it still seems foreign to me … as if I am living in someone else’s home. It all looks familiar to me now. But every so often, it also looks wrong. It’s a strange feeling. Like I am totally out of place. We…
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The Physician’s Fallacy
We could not get along in today’s world without physicians. That’s pretty much a given. I would not still be here were it not for some really fine trauma doctors. But … There is a limit to what physicians can do and that limit is that they are human. They are subject to all the…
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Desire
The desire for one small tooth, a molar, in my lower jaw on the right side, has pretty much ruined my life. I tell myself that vanity had nothing to do with it. Truthfully, my mouth is small and even when I smile widely, you don’t see the huge toothless space in my right lower…
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Cats vs. Dogs: Boredom
Ignore your dog for too long and this happens: “Hey. I’m kind of bored. Could we do something? See, I brought you a toy. It’s my favorite toy. I’d like to play with this toy. Very much. I mean, you can see that right? No? Well, not right now, I guess. I’ll just lie here…
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Cats vs. Dogs: Treats
Offer a dog and treat and this happens: “Hey! That smells great. I want that. I want that now. Really! Are you hearing me? I NEED that right now (shifts weight rapidly from one foot to the other). What part of now don’t you understand? Look at me. I’m hopping up and down. Now I’m…
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Cats vs. Dogs: New Stuff
Change something in a dog’s environment and this happens: “Whoa! Wait a minute. What’s that? That’s never been there before. I don’t think I like it. I’ll just creep up on it and get a closer look. Whoa! Still don’t know what it is. Maybe I need to smell it. Gotta get a little closer.…
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Orange Kitty
Last summer, I realized that we were feeding one particular stray cat more than the others. I’d see the cat coming into or leaving our yard quite often. I started calling the cat Orange Kitty even though OK is not the orangiest of kitties ever. More of an orange marmalade color really. I didn’t think…
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Maddie
She is a small dog with enough scrappy for a mutt five times her size. Brown, she is, with a black stripe down the middle of her back that reaches to the tip of her short tail. That tail is always wagging in its funny back and forth way. Hampered from a real good wag…
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