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I'm focusing on 'family stories' at the moment. ("A Change of Pace: Family Stories" (11/23/2024))- Category: Family Stories
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Tag Archives: animals
Freckles is a Girl: Remembering a Dog Next Door
The house next door north from 818 went through several owners, residents at any rate, while my folks and I were living there. I don’t remember anything about the folks or person who owned Freckles, but I remember the mid-sized … Continue reading
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Good Night, Boots
I’m not sure when those photos were taken. or who took them. My folks and I were living at 818 10th Street South in Moorhead, Minnesota, at the time; which puts the date at around 1970. Could have been earlier, … Continue reading
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Two Mice
Since I’m mostly doing something else this week, I’ll talk about two mice. I didn’t see either, but I did hear one; and that’s the one I’ll start with. The Resident Mouse and Me: Another San Francisco Memory I was … Continue reading
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A Cat, a Dog, and a Reflective Chain-Link Fence
Ying wasn’t the most nervous cat I’ve known. That’d be Twitches, a cat my oldest daughter had, some years back now. She tells me Twitches was even twitchy in her sleep. My folks got Ying at the pound in Fargo. … Continue reading
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A Short Look at a Small Dog, and Another Week in Minnesota
I missed Mass on Epiphany Sunday. I’m not happy about that, at all. But we had very cold weather outside — and I’d been noticing a serious mismatch between temperature readings my body was giving me, and what I saw … Continue reading
