Graphic by Phyllis Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis are on the road again as the keeper joins Doug Moe at “Mystery to Me” book store on Monroe street tonight at 6 p.m to discuss the international implications of the keeper’s recent book “Treeson: an APOLOGIA to …
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Kickass and John Muir
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis in sending a brief message to John Muir, wherever he might be: “John: “It is a glorious Sunday–May 21, 2023, and we are here at the lake on your old farmstead in Marquette county; and it is so blissfully …
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Kickass and Sharing the Trail
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, passes along the information from the keeper that when he and Phyllis hiked the trail around Middleton’s Tiedeman Pond it included a blackbird lesson on territorial claims as an irritated male redwing rode on the back of a sandhill crane on the trail just …
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Kickass and Phyllis’s Cancer
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis today in celebrating the “No Evidence of Disease” report regarding Phyllis’ cancer condition. Is this is a great day or what!!!!! Photo by Bill Stokes See more at… The Bill Stokes Author Page
Kickass and Doug Moe
Graphic by Phyllis Stokes By Bill Stokes “Treeson” is an apology to all the trees that went into making the newsprint to carry the author’s “drivel” to readers of The Chicago Tribune, Milwaukee Journal, Wisconsin State Journal and Stevens Point Daily Journal over a 35-year newspaper career back when newspapers mattered. It uses some of …
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Kickass and Swimsuit Issue
Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes that as a co-editor of the “Breeze” the Vista West residents’ newsletter, he is promoting a “swimsuit” issue, inspired, of course, by Martha Stewart’s appearance, at 81 years old, in the “Sports Illustrated” …
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Kickass Does Not Own a Boat
Aureliocira, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, assists the keeper in sorting through the reasons he feels extra good this spring, and one is that he does not own a boat. Add that to the cliché about the two happiest days in a boaters life–the day he buys a …
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Kickass and Mother’s Day Flowers
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, compliments the keeper on his cheapness in contributing to Phyllis’s Mother’s Day by taking her to flowers instead of buying her a bouquet. Meeting her family at the spectacular Trillium display at Wood County’s Bluff Park and finding Marsh Marigolds in a nearby ditch …
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Kickass and Males on Mother’s Day
Traceylovesmom, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and the rest of the world’s males on this Mother’s Day to simply say thanks, Mom, and to facetiously ask if you had it to do over again on our behalf, considering the work and worry we caused, would …
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Kickass and Naked Gardening Day
Tainted Fruit, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes that in the keeper’s inability to keep up with the flow of things, he missed “Naked Gardening Day,” even though he has been witnessing Phyllis’s–fully-clothed–gardening preparations for several weeks. The keeper mentioned the day briefly to Phyllis, but she was …
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Kickass and Wisconsin Dumbness
Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in noting that as global “dumbing” grows apace, Wisconsin more than holds its own; but a brief inventory of the results of Wisconsin’s unique dumbness might be useful in the interest …
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Kickass Takes a Day Off
Edralis, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, ever anxious to add to the world’s vast store of knowledge, shows that this is how a dog, and the keeper, take a day off………….. Top Dog Tips Photo by Bill Stokes See more at… The Bill Stokes Author Page