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well that wouldn’t fly anymore

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little brownie

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little brownie

At home, at any given point I’ll just be walking along through the kitchen or a hallway and find my hand in a mouth. This is new. Once she realizes that I’m hip to her game and I stop to see what’s going on in her little 27% Shephard, 23% Husky, 20% Staffie/pit-bull brain she wiggles and jumps to confirm that I’ve won big at her game – and that it is now the time to start thinking about how to…

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Yonkers

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Yonkers

Sweet Bea, our blond neighborly rescue lab passed away thirty-four days ago. Bianca, Bea, Sweet Bea, Yonka, Yonkers . . Before rescuing Bianca (we stuck with renaming her ‘Bea’) in September of 2022 she had spent the majority of her days alone in our neighbor’s overgrown, chain-link fence-lined yard, when she went inside nightly her beautiful fur became compacted with her own excrement, the…

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gargoyle

gargoyle in my bedroom

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who wants it

Getting denied at the plasma donor center today was a surprisingly painful slap of rejection. I was already humming and hawing at the notion of getting cash for my plasma but figured literally anyone could do this; it’s for a good cause, some extra scratch in my pocket, and as an added bonus – I could learn what my blood type is finally. Instagram was putting up some shiny ads and damnit, I took…

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Money Pit

“It’s… beautiful,” Shelly Long says to Tom Hanks, pausing between the words with that breathy Shelly Long-ish confusion. She’s gazing with awe and disbelief at the stunning mansion majestically standing before her: it’s the only house for them to purchase and it’s listed at a ridiculously low price. The cab that brought them to this property drives away. Hanks, eyebrows furrowed, puts the slip…

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Help me Rhonda

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There is a light that never shines

I can hear her in my head. Don’t do it. You can’t do it, your time has passed – you’ll only look like a fool and disappoint an even bigger team than your last job. She’s not negative, the voice. She’s warm, loving, protective, wistful. It’s a sad, mourning voice, with an undertone of comfort and longing. She knows what I’ve gone through and she’s holding her foot in the door no matter what I…