Kickass at the River

Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper and Phyllis joining the flood of life forms spending time along the Wisconsin River as Spring dominates like green paint spilled everywhere. The river, with its dark cold water running swift and steady has attracted life ranging from pelicans to people, …
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The Pen in Hand Guide to the Movies: Review of “We Live in Time”

Illustration by Michael DiMilo Measured by the Heart: Review of We Live in Time ★★★1/2 By Geoff Carter The tragic love story has been with us forever. From the star-crossed lovers in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet(and West Side Story) to Love Story to The Notebook to Titanic to Brokeback Mountain—and many, many more—these tales of love and loss and regret draw audiences like flies …
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Kickass and Joan and Bill

Attribution: Photo by Derek Otway on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis in welcoming Phyllis’s sister Joan and her husband Bill as they visit from their home near Saskatoon, Canada. In speaking of their border crossing into the US, Joan and Bill said it was necessary to delete from their phones …
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Kickass and Migration

Attribution: A starling murmuration over Baurch Farm by Walter Baxter, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper and Phyllis comfortable with the knowledge that as they slept last night some 301.1 million birds migrated through the night skies on their way to pleasant propagation places.  It is one …
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Kickass and Trickle Down

Attribution: Photo: Graeme Main/MOD, OGL v1.0OGL v1.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that as they become more familiar with the orange POTUS’s “trickle down” economic plan patterned after the dogs’ system of marking territory, the keeper and Phyllis try to live less like a fire hydrant or a tree …
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