Category Archives: Parenting

Tomorrows and Yesterdays

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Last night I watched Gone With the Wind for what I later realized was the first time in at least six and a half years. I discerned this fact while trying to analyze why I bawled through virtually the whole thing. For a movie I’ve seen at least a dozen times, that struck me as a strange reaction…until I realized… Read more »

My Dogs Are Morons and My Garage Smells Like Pee

(http://kristenking.com) —The dog owners among you have probably extrapolated that the garage smells like pee because the dogs are morons. It’s been raining for days, and rather than go outside in the yard like good dogs, like the well-mannered dogs they’re supposed to be, one or both of the big dogs has taken to peeing on boxes in the garage,… Read more »

For the Dead Bird I Found on the Patio Today

(www.meowbarkblog.com) — It caught me off guard when I looked outside and saw your broken body with perfect feathers rippling so slightly in the wind. I locked the dogs inside before I donned rubber gloves to investigate. My breath stuck in my throat as I turned you over, bird, and saw the unfortunate angle of your neck. Snapped. Your eyes… Read more »

Dog Disasters: Today’s Episode of “Things the Dogs Destroyed or Ate” — A 30-lb Bag of Dog Food and 9 Rolls of Paper Towels

(www.meowbarkblog.com) — I’m either a glutton for punishment or just slow on the uptake, because I thought I could run out to the post office for a few minutes the other day without worrying about the dogs making some kind of mess. We don’t let them loose in the house when we leave anymore because they’re so darn creative and… Read more »

Apparently I’m a Moron

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(www.meowbarkblog.com) — We’ve lived in our house for 2 years next month, and every nice day the whole time we’ve been here, I’ve said to myself, “I wish we had double-hung windows.” You see, the windows in the dining room and my office open onto the front porch, and I can’t open them more than an inch or two because… Read more »