Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, passes along the keeper’s report of a Vista West “lunch for the ages” that he had the distinct privilege of attending as the only male: There was Hilda at 103, Sally at 99, and Phyllis a mere child at 83; and then there was …
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Category:Aging
Kickass and Telling Time
Attribution: Photo by Sonja Langford on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper, undergoing a routine “insurance” exam was asked, among other things, to draw a clock face showing the time at 8:20. The resulting diagram was satisfactory to examiner Rich, though he remarked that the big hand would have traveled off 8 and …
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Kickass and Lifetime of Cars
Attribution: Patrick from Merrimack, NH, United States, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes the keeper’s lifelong relationship with cars, beginning back when he talked his father into hooking up the horses and pulling home a Model T pickup that had been rusting away behind a neighbor’s shed. His …
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Kickass and Remembering or Forgetting
Attribution: Photo by Roman Kraft on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes that the keeper has attained that age that by some standards makes him too old to vote, a nuisance on the roadways, cause for elevator delay, deaf to commands to “get out of the way” and unable to sort outrageous lies from the …
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Kickass and Conception Day
Attribution: http://www.pdimages.com/web9.htm, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that as the keeper, gets ready for an age milestone, he notes that nobody’s birthday is possible without their having been a conception day nine months previously. Just why conception day is not celebrated, and is even pretty much ignored, …
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Kickass and Positive Pain
Attribution: Photo by Henry Fraczek on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the results from the keeper’s right shoulder MRI showed, in Dr. Warbasse’s assessment, that there are rips in his rotator cuff and frayed muscles and the joint is generally a mess, and it is unusual that the keeper is not writhing in …
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Kickass Has a Good Day
Attribution: Photo by frank mckenna on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes along with the keeper, the measure of a good day when you are almost as old as the wheel: *Getting out of bed and standing up. *Showering, shaving, dressing and putting on shoes, especially putting on shoes. *Turning on the coffee maker that …
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Kickass and Blue Moon
Attribution: gailhampshire from Cradley, Malvern, U.K, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joined the keeper and Phyllis in opting to ignore last night’s 2023 blue moon and wait for the one in 2037, when the keeper will be 106 and hopes to be less distracted in attending to the …
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Kickass and Noise of Living
Attribution: David Benbennick, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, welcomes the keeper and Phyllis back from their five-day runaway to the tiny central Wisconsin lake, and poses the question: If you do not have a job can you legitimately take a vacation? So, it wasn’t a vacation, but rather …
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Kickass and Being an Old Fool
Attribution: Anderson Mancini from Sao Paulo, Brazil, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, does his best to help the keeper maintain his standing as “old fool” since that is an identity that he seems to wear most comfortably, and most often. And an incident yesterday so demonstrated the keeper’s …
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Kickass and Tech Isolation
Attribution: Nantucket Historical Association Library, No restrictions, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper, having had grandfathers who found it difficult if not impossible to make the transition from horses to automobiles, sympathizes with the old dudes in their painful discoveries that early cars did not respond to …
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Kickass and Packaging
Attribution: Photo by Nico Smit on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, noting the keeper’s never-ending efforts to make the world a better place and to remain relevant in that world, continues to ignore global conflagration, multiple wars, mass shootings and the political clown show while trying to be helpful with such critical things as retaining …
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