The Pen in Hand Blog featuring Bill Stokes
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Kickass and Blaize’s Party
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis thoroughly enjoyed great granddaughter Blaize’s “golden” birthday party hosted by Blaize’s parents Sunny and Kyle. To be three on the third is an important milestone in Blaize’s life and in her pretty party dress she made the most …
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Kickass and Sunrise
Photo by Phyllis Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that things have a way of working out for the keeper whether he deserves it or not. Say there is going to be a terrific sunrise on May 3, 2025, but the keeper at 5:53 a.m. is in the middle of an important …
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Kickass Can’t Sleep
Illustration by Michael DiMilo By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is unable to advise the keeper or Phyllis on why one or the other of them often wakes up in the middle of the night, usually to a bladder demand, and is then unable to get back to sleep and must then lie in …
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Kickass and Demonstrators
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper lending a hand as Phyllis and her Vista West cohorts join the May Day crowd of “IMPEACH-CONVICT-REMOVE” demonstrators across the country. Fresh from a previous practice session earlier at the Capitol there was a serious sign making endeavor—Phyllis’s sign reads “I’M …
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Kickass Remembers Grocery Shopping
Attribution: Michael Barera, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper remembers a grocery shopping trip with his mother as follows: Park in the Barron, WI. back alley and lug the crate of fresh eggs in through the back door where grocer Harry Meyers checked them over …
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Kickass and Phyllis Demonstration
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper assists Phyllis in celebrating the liberal victory in her Canadian birth country, which speaks to the bald buffoon POTUS’s recent boast that he “runs the country and the world.” “Right into the ground, Baldy. Right into the ground! Meanwhile, back …
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Kickass at the River
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper and Phyllis joining the flood of life forms spending time along the Wisconsin River as Spring dominates like green paint spilled everywhere. The river, with its dark cold water running swift and steady has attracted life ranging from pelicans to people, …
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Kickass and Correspondents’ Dinner
Attribution: The White House from Washington, DC, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Having been permanently identified by the current POTUS as “enemy of the people”, the White House Press Corps did away with the traditional appearance of a comedian at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, previously saying it was an effort to …
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Kickass and Joan and Bill
Attribution: Photo by Derek Otway on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis in welcoming Phyllis’s sister Joan and her husband Bill as they visit from their home near Saskatoon, Canada. In speaking of their border crossing into the US, Joan and Bill said it was necessary to delete from their phones …
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Kickass and Migration
Attribution: A starling murmuration over Baurch Farm by Walter Baxter, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper and Phyllis comfortable with the knowledge that as they slept last night some 301.1 million birds migrated through the night skies on their way to pleasant propagation places. It is one …
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Kickass and Trickle Down
Attribution: Photo: Graeme Main/MOD, OGL v1.0OGL v1.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that as they become more familiar with the orange POTUS’s “trickle down” economic plan patterned after the dogs’ system of marking territory, the keeper and Phyllis try to live less like a fire hydrant or a tree …
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