Tag: Bella the cat
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Screw the tonic water
As Hemingway wrote, A man goes broke slowly, and then all at once. When you have to put groceries on a credit card, you know you have a problem. And when the credit cards max out and you are paying more in interest than you have money in the bank and you fall behind and the…
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Staying put in the death house
So be it. I stay in this house with the ghosts of my wife and my son and my two brothers. They join me at cocktail hour and we all get drunk.
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Burn Billy Burn
Back in your hey-day in your thirties before you found S. back then you had friends you had girlfriends you had the time of your life as the song goes and then yes S. the love of your life and marriage and thirty years of tumultuous but steadfast love…
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Beowulf the Cat
My cat had a traumatic day at the vets on the afternoon of New Year’s Eve, ear drops, rabies shot, a needle the size of a harpoon plunged into her backside, but she did not utter a cry. That is one brave cat.
Mary Saves the Day 