Picture by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis in wishing the keeper’s younger—by only 15 months, sister Norma a very happy birthday as she greets this day and every day with typical independence, alone in her Cherry Valley house with family nearby ready to celebrate with a …
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Kickass and Lovesick Elk
Attribution: Photo by David J. Stang, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis in drawing useful lessons from the love-sick Wisconsin elk that left its comfortable Black River Forest home, stopped briefly in McFarland and then crossed over into Illinois only to be struck and …
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Kickass and Iditarod Dogs
Attribution: Frank Kovalchek from USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, allows the keeper to revisit good memories under the heading of why not? It is mid-December 1987 and southern Wis is getting a 17-inch snowfall. But the keeper, on the Chicago Tribune payroll at the time, is not …
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Kickass and New Watch Band
Attribution: hypo.physe, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, passes along the keeper’s experience of applying his peasant mentality to shopping for a band for the wristwatch somebody gave him years ago. First he was conditioned by ads in the NYT that neighbor Jim hands off on a daily basis, …
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Kickass says, “No, Virginia”
Attribution: Virginia O’Hanlon , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper is aware of the discomfort that bad news brings, but in the interest of truth and honesty must pass along the results of extensive traditional journalistic research and announce: “No, Virginia, there is no Santa Claus!” …
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Kickass Ships a Book
Attribution: © Nevit Dilmen, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, admires the keeper’s inclination to confess incompetence bordering on stupidity, his thinking being that such reports are found comforting by those who can say to themselves, “Well, I’ve never done anything that dumb!” It was the keeper’s simple task …
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Kickass and Old Friend
Attribution: Wil Stewart wilstewart3, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper, having recently renewed contact with lifelong friend Roger Locke who lives in Michigan near a daughter, is astounded at the fact that the two of them, to the best of their knowledge, are the only survivors …
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Kickass and Bar Hamburgers
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper has forever had a weakness for tavern hamburgers—with a slice of raw, a little mustard, fries and served with cold beer, of course. He was thus indulged when he and Phyllis met Phyllis’s son Todd and granddaughter Alexis at the …
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Kickass and the Heimlich Maneuver
Attribution: Evolution and evolvability, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, passes along the frightening experience of the keeper and Phyllis as dinner companion Dorothy suddenly choked and was immediately successfully rescued by the skillful administration of the Heimlich maneuver by her daughter Sigrid. That Sigrid is an experienced nurse …
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Kickass Remembers Pearl Harbor
Attribution: U.S. Navy, Office of Public Relations, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that 82 years ago when remembering was an official national necessity as commanded by the ubiquitous “Remember Pearl Harbor” signs everywhere, the keeper was among those actually old enough to remember and vividly recalls the …
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Kickass at Lunch
Attribution: Prayitno / Thank you for (12 millions +) view from Los Angeles, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper had lunch with four others where 83-year-old Harry was considered “the kid” and except for “the kid” the keeper at 92 was the youngest at the …
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Kickass Sells Books
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis will be participating in the Vista West Author and Art sale tomorrow afternoon—Wednesday 4-6 pm in the community room where Christmas shoppers will be encouraged to wrap up their season with copies of the keeper’s Margaret’s War; Treeson, an APOLOGIA …
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