All posts tagged "Dog"

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  The Mattress in the Stairwell

  My dear Readers, Due to a massive computer meltdown this past Friday the 7th of March, I was unable to post my regularly...

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  Little Timmy

  I was in the garage prepping my gas grill for summer use. Once a year, I take it apart, scrape and fire...

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  Crazy Eddy

  Crazy Eddy lived in a trailer on a half an acre of land across the street from me on Golden Valley Road....

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  Grandpa

  The slate grey winter sky hung low, perilously to the ground. The horizon seemed a million miles away, flat and plain and...

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  Fire Good

  You know those tests in women’s magazines? “Sex- how to know if you are satisfying your man in bed?” or “Sex- what he thinks he...

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  Football & Best Friends

  Walter Griffiths tried to kill me the first time we met. In 1968, when I was in seventh grade, I tried out...

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  Fishing

  The telephone rang. I answered it. It was my friend, Tony.     “Hey man, are you still in the Doghouse, or...

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  The Weekend

  The day of dad’s Memorial Service was very long. I mean, funerals are already difficult enough to navigate for the socially awkward…...

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  In Memory of my father, Carroll Lee-Roy Peterson.

  I was raised by a real man in a time of real men. Now, that’s not to say I didn’t have a...

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  Mr. Bidwell

  In 1971, there was a local character in my neighborhood named, Mr. Bidwell, who walked to and from the little grocery on...