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With Apologies to Robert Frost

(sung to the tune of “The Bonnie Banks o’ Loch Lomond”) O ye’ll tak’ the high road, and Ah’ll tak’ the low road And ye’ll git your Big Mac afore me

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Sometimes, Nature Is A Fanged Demon Of Destruction That Wants To Eat You

When you live in the country, like we do, you feel a kinship with Nature.  But you must never lose sight of the fact that Nature isn’t all Bambi and butterflies.  Sometimes, Nature is fanged demons of destruction that want … Continue reading

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Summer: When The Early Goose Gets The Worm In Capistrano

In the winter, the geese fly south. In the spring, the swallows return to Capistrano. In the summer…in the summer…I can’t think of anything involving birds that means summer is here.  Instead I’ve got my…  Top 10 Signs that Summer … Continue reading

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Great Dining Expectations

“Let’s go out to eat tonight.”   Same words + different people = different meanings It’s all a matter of expectations.

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A Mental Roller Coaster Ride… or Toilet Paper, Toilet Paper, My Kingdom for Some Toilet Paper

. . . Men and women don’t see the same world.   I’m not saying one vision is better than the other – they’re just different.  I also don’t pretend to represent Every Woman, but I suspect this will sound familiar to many.  … Continue reading

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Earth Priestess of Spring

Ah, spring. The love of the soil is buried deep in our collective conscience.  Each year the sap rises and our spirits lift in song, in an ancient ritual older than memory. We are druid priestesses anew, dancing at Beltane.  We … Continue reading

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Weekend Wanderings

Oh my darling clementines, I must leave you now.  I’m heading out-of-town for a weekend of family fun in the great state of Michigan.  (Michigan – it’s a state of mind.)  I will be incommunicado.  Not only that, Gilligan, but I probably … Continue reading

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Kaption Kontest Kreates Krazy Konnections

It seems like only yesterday, yet it was a long, LONG (really very long) time ago that I was last a finalist in the caption contest over at The Good Greatsby’s blog.  Some would say I belong in the finals EVERY time, … Continue reading

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Stuff That Can Rub (A-Dub, Dub) You Out

There have been disturbing accounts in the news recently of people flipping out on a potent street drug.  The most horrific of these stories was about a man who tried to eat another person while high.  The drug of choice for these discriminating users?  Bath … Continue reading

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There Are Too Many Talented People On Here

. . I recently saw the Woody Allen movie “Midnight In Paris”. Owen Wilson plays a modern writer who visits Paris and steps through time to the 1920s.  He becomes friends with Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, Cole Porter and F. … Continue reading

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