Archive For The “Wild Dog” Category

The Notorious RBG Turns Four

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The Notorious RBG Turns Four

The bond with a true dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth will ever be. – Konrad Lorenz Ragnar Brutha Gonzo turns four years old today. That’s twenty-eight in dog years. Practically a career. All dog. He will chase a cat, he will dig a hole in your yard. One hole, to…

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White Fang Is My Spirit Animal

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White Fang Is My Spirit Animal

“He became quicker of movement than the other dogs, swifter of foot, craftier, deadlier, more lithe, more lean with ironlike muscle and sinew, more enduring, more cruel more ferocious, and more intelligent. He had to become all these things, else he would not have held his own nor survived the hostile environment in which he…

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Four Twenty Legally

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Four Twenty Legally

To make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws. – Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed I have a great deal of knowledge about drugs, and not necessarily how you might think. Not unnecessarily either. My degree of expertise seemed kinda funny when I married a Drug Court Administrator. Felt less weird after she…

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Back In The Day

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Back In The Day

Vital lives are about action. You can’t feel warmth unless you create it, can’t feel delight until you play, can’t know serendipity unless you risk. – Joan Erickson Back in the day, the old man was hired to provide security on a, how should I put this, oh, yeah, an organic farm in the foothills of…

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Booze Hound

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Booze Hound

“It’s not drinking alone if the dog is home.“ “There was nothing glorious about the life of a drinker or the life of a writer. That’s the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens, you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens, you drink…

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I’m Not Done With You Yet, Stevo

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I’m Not Done With You Yet, Stevo

When nothing around you makes sense, everything is equally threatening. – Mandy Ashcraft, Small Orange Fruit Stephen J. “Stevo” Beard is gone forever and I know I will never hear from him again. I disappeared myself for a decade or so, or so it seems. Happy to reconnect with Mr. Beard. And when he would go…

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Doggedly Cedar Key

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Doggedly Cedar Key

Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore. – Leonard Cohen Used to go to Key West. Many miles away, eight hours, likely longer, expensive it seemed several years ago. An all-night party town unnecessary for folks in bed by ten. Cedar Key, maybe ninety minutes drive. Everything feels thirty percent cheaper. More…

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Wonder, Woman (Haiku)

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Wonder, Woman (Haiku)

WIFE is an acronym for Woman I Forever Enjoy. – Barker Ajax My patient third wife exactly what I needed right when she found me.

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Ragnar Turns Three

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Ragnar Turns Three

Our age is merely the number of years the world has been enjoying us. And here he is nearly three years later. Ragnar Brutha Gonzo ages seven years for every human year and lately I age about three years per my own self. I keep him safe, he keeps me busy. I think the reason…

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Unedited Or Rich & Famous

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Unedited Or Rich & Famous

My advice is to get a good agent and a good tax accountant if you ever make any money, and remember, you can’t eat fame. And you can’t write unless you want to write, and you can’t want to unless you feel like it.– William S. Burroughs Have rarely felt like it. I am a late bloomer….

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