“Drive-In”RoyBuchanan, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons The Ten Best Summer Films of All Time Finally. After fourteen months of quarantine, confinement, isolation, boredom, and loneliness, we appear to be on the brink of beating the pandemic and getting back into a—somewhat—normalized social existence, which could mean a real summer—one with concerts, crowds, fun, and traveling. …
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Category:Pandemic
Kickass Peeks Behind the Mask
By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports several unmasking events in the keeper’s life at the independent living quarters he shares with Phyllis. He, the keeper, was more than gratified by the unmasking to learn that it was indeed Phyllis who has been enriching his life in a thousand ways since even way before the …
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A Window of Opportunity
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter Some of our greatest leaders have found themselves occupying the Oval Office during our most desperate times. Franklin Delano Roosevelt became president during the worst Depression in our nation’s history. Abraham Lincoln was elected to a polarized country on the brink of what turned out to be one …
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Kickass and Egg Hunt Covid
By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper, fresh off the family Easter egg hunt at Kim and Dick’s where he competed successfully with a half dozen little professional egg hunters, is happy to join Phyllis in noting Wisconsin’s great Covid 19 vaccination record, particularly as compared to Florida where a big …
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Submitted for Your Approval
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter It felt as if we had stepped into the twilight zone last week. Unexpected and surreal—although not exactly frightening—events were happening, unusual even for these times. It’s been an unreal year, probably the most incredible of our lifetimes. Over 500,000 Americans died. Millions more became deathly ill. Our …
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