Photo by Phyllis Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, observes that it was not enough that Phyllis became the publishing gears responsible for “Treeson: an APOLOGIA to trees,” the keeper’s look back at his 35 years of newspaper column writing, she has now assumed the role of “movie maker” and authoritatively directed the …
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Kickass and Cold Recovery
Hoyabird8 at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that indications are the keeper will survive the common cold that he has been suffering from, and he would therefore like to retract the instructions he gave Phyllis to have his body bronzed and placed on a pedestal …
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Kickass and Being a Beagle
Mariano Szklanny, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper was intrigued by the report of a Japanese man who paid $23,000 to have a costume made so he could realize his dream of being a wolf. In asking Phyllis what creature the keeper might costume-up as, …
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Kickass and the Uncommon Cold
NIAID, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is avoiding the keeper‘s pitiful ploy for sympathy due to his having a cold. It has been a life-long, firmly held conviction of the keeper’s that for reasons that defy scientific evaluation, the common cold causes him more misery than it does …
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Kickass and Ducking the Bullet
John Warwick Brooke , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis tried to watch the latest movie version of “All Quiet on the Western Front,” but were put off by the movie maker’s skill in portraying the gore of ground combat; to the point that …
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Kickass and Van Gogh
heptc, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that Phyllis took two of her grandchildren–Geordan and Luka to see the Van Gogh immersive show, and all pronounced it a pleasurable outing. There may be no connection, but at a lunch gathering following the show, Phyllis peered into one of …
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Kickass and Cloudy Days
Photo by Martin Adams on Unsplash Kickass, the doorstop dog, passes along the keeper’s take on the cloud- shrouded January that prevails: It is global politics with Putin and the Russians denying everyone any sunshine, and Xi and the Chinese using the cloud cover to lay personal claim to the moonlight. There has been actual speculation that China …
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Kickass Gets a Haircut
Altwngirl – Self Scanned, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is encouraging the keeper to accept the fact that getting a haircut is enough of an accomplishment to consider a day well spent. It is in adjusting to these kinds of vintage-age experiences that the keeper and his age …
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Kickass and Brother Orville
DVIDSHUB, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, listens up as the keeper reports on a visit with his brother Orville during which the accuracy of childhood stories was challenged for both of them. It has, after all, been more than 80 years. One constant is the adjustments that life demands, …
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Kickass and Speaker of the House
DonkeyHotey, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in trying to buoy up his confidence in the intelligent working of government by watching how the Repub reps go about selecting a speaker of the house, while the New York buffoon who reported his mother died twice and …
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Kickass and Young Storytellers
Attribution: קלאופטרה, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes that while the keeper was a professional storyteller for decades, he found himself at a disadvantage recently in a storytelling session with Tyler and Trevor, a couple of very young great grandsons. It was one of those rare and wonderful occasions …
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Kickass and TREESON the Book
Photo by Phyllis Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, assists the keeper and Phyllis in stepping into 2023 as if they owned it. The daily miracle of their being together at this juncture in their lives is not taken for granted, nor is their plain old presence on this flat earth. The first day …
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