Attribution: Photo by phyo min on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, endorses the keeper’s New Year’s resolution that he will never again complain about the abuse continually bestowed on him, and Phyllis, by the ever-changing tech world. With the subject of tech torture eliminated from the flow of the keeper’s communicating, expect more observations about …
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Category:Aging
Kickass and Depression Babies
Attribution: Dorothea Lange, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and thousands of other “Depression babies” would likely not exist had there been an “affordability” consideration to their births. But since there is no immediate cost to the physical act of making babies, even with an …
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Kickass and Ice Floes
Attribution: Photo by Ekaterina Moroshilova on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in viewing the onset of winter with more than the usual trepidation as he tries not to dwell on vague thoughts of an Eskimo culture that once floated its elderly and infirmed off on ice flows as a means of final …
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Kickass and Depression Baby
Attribution: Franklin D Roosevelt Library Website, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper suffering a serious case of sticker shock when he carelessly checked out of a big store with a new pair of jeans which were priced at close to what his father once paid for …
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Kickass and NO KINGS Women
Photos by Phyllis Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, as a “No Kings” observer, reports the keeper closeted in his sophisticated analytical lab trying to put meaning to the fact that there were many more women than men among the seven million “No Kings” participants. In the keeper’s personal case, Phyllis and her …
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Kickass at Age 43 and 94
Attribution: Reinhold Möller, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper rummaging up a clipping from the Feb. 3, 1974 issue of he Sunday Milwaukee Journal in which he went on at great length about how being an “old person” is a particular hell due to the ways …
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Kickass and Tech Inefficiency
Attribution: Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, sympathizes with the keeper in his tech inadequacies from which Phylis is constantly rescuing him. If the keeper were prone to it he would be in a constant state of embarrassment. But then he considers what a long trip it has been for …
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Kickass and EMT Morning Visit
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper up early as the big red fire engine and its accompanying ambulance came rolling out of the dregs of night as quietly as stalking predators—no sirens screaming over the deserted streets, and red lights flashing only for arrival. The dark forms …
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Kickass and Birthdays
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis, fresh from the keeper’s great-grandson Tyler’s 11th birthday party in his parents Mazomanie garage, are impressed anew with the significance of the annual ritualistic celebration we use to mark the passage of our personal time. For one day each …
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Kickass and the Winery
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports on the lady who came to the winery alone, to sit in the bright Sunday sunshine at a table near the keeper and Phyllis, to exchange casual greetings and to drink her wine in peaceful solitude. As she put on her sunhat and …
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Kickass and Therapist Tara
Attribution: Bill Branson (Photographer), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that Tara the physical therapist has taken on the monumental task of keeping the keeper from falling on his face, probably only until he falls on his ass which has more cushioning. Tara provides exercise examples that have …
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Kickass and Hair
Photo by Phyllis Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis as they discuss “hair,” the occasion being Phyllis’s “perm” that makes her look like a high school girl. Hair is one of those life-long issues that leans heavily on a genetic base and the vagaries of “dumb luck.” The keeper’s …
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