Tag: dogs
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A Measure of Living
It’s 6:00 am on a February morning. The air is chill as I slip out from beneath warm blankets. Ice has formed inside the window pane of my bedroom and I scrape it away to peer into the darkness at the frosted world beyond. It is 1960. I am fourteen years old. Outside our front…
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See the Tree, How Big it’s Grown…
Honey (Labrador; blonde, too fat) exhibits all the cool intelligence of her breed. Wide brown eyes, folds of extra flesh that cushion her head as she sleeps, a judgmental poise that speaks of wisdom as old as time. She surveys her territory from her French windows with an imperious air, where her growl of…
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A Taste of Honey
Inspired by a chance visit to http://mylifewithwieners.wordpress.com/ which cast some very interesting light upon the political philosophy of Dachshunds. . Anyway, there’s this dog. Let me state clearly at the start I did not want another dog. I was dead-set against pet ownership. I wanted a peaceful, tranquil old age. I blame my son.…
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