Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, will nap today on behalf of the Keeper and Phyllis as they are off to Quarry Ridge Retirement Community to do a book reading program for the keeper’s novel Ah, the Women! It is the story of how women take over the world to save …
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Month:July 2026
A Fourth of July Memorial
Attribution: Photo by Alex Martinez on Unsplash (Originally published July 4th, 2025) By Geoff Carter Every Fourth of July, we celebrate and honor an idea, a hope, and a dream which has survived two hundred and fify years. It seemed to be an impossible dream, that a nation could function as a free democracy, with lawmakers elected by …
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Kickass and the Lost Wedding Note
Attribution: makaiyla willis, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis found the following note lying on the floor near the elevator. “Dear Gert: “Well, Louie has done it again, we are on our way to the Taylor Swift wedding and of course we do …
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National Assets
Attribution: Photo by Bernd 📷 Dittrich on Unsplash By Geoff Carter America has always had a love-hate relationship with its immigrants. On the one hand, we need them. We couldn’t have built the country without them. They raised our skyscrapers, worked our sweatshops, labored in our fields, and harvested our crops. Today they care for the elderly, teach …
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Kickass and the Country’s Birthdays
Attribution: Emanuel Leutze, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, in this time of celebrating the USA’s birthday, honors the keeper’s claim for the stage to reflect on the 200th birthday back in 1976 when he spent several weeks on a fascinating tour of meaningful historic sites for a series of …
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