Archive For The “Wild Dog” Category
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go. – Dr. Seuss A Nature Valley morning with coconut butter. When we get outside, something amazing happens. You can feel it. It can make us feel more energized, helps manage stress, and strengthen our families. We…
Here’s something from the early Nineties. From the Wild Dog Chronicles. I have respect for the wild life. Which is why I applied for a job at Jungle Gardens in Sarasota. Providing On-Premises Graveyard Shift Security. That’s what I do. I’m a hired gun. In return for punching a clock from eleven p.m. to five…
Name one development in the history of humankind that has increased happiness more than the domestication of dogs. – Aaron Easterly Thursdays, the dog and I drive to town. We order two beers, one for each of us. Damn dog simply can’t handle alcohol and starts to talk. With an accent I’m unable to place. Doga…
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. – Albert Camus The old man finished cleaning his AR-15. Extra magazines, thirty cartridges each. A bump stock. Still legal. Wanted to wear a couple of bandoleros crisscrossing his chest, but thought…
A dangerous book will always be in danger from those it threatens with the demand that they question their assumptions. They’d rather hang on to the assumptions and ban the book. – Ursula K. Le Guin DeSantis Gala Red Hat Ladies Night Suspected drag queens read books. He arrests them all. Bachelor Auction @ The Villages…
The bond with a true dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth will ever be. – Konrad Lorenz Ragnar Brutha Gonzo turns four years old today. That’s twenty-eight in dog years. Practically a career. All dog. He will chase a cat, he will dig a hole in your yard. One hole, to…
“He became quicker of movement than the other dogs, swifter of foot, craftier, deadlier, more lithe, more lean with ironlike muscle and sinew, more enduring, more cruel more ferocious, and more intelligent. He had to become all these things, else he would not have held his own nor survived the hostile environment in which he…
To make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws. – Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed I have a great deal of knowledge about drugs, and not necessarily how you might think. Not unnecessarily either. My degree of expertise seemed kinda funny when I married a Drug Court Administrator. Felt less weird after she…
Vital lives are about action. You can’t feel warmth unless you create it, can’t feel delight until you play, can’t know serendipity unless you risk. – Joan Erickson Back in the day, the old man was hired to provide security on a, how should I put this, oh, yeah, an organic farm in the foothills of…
“It’s not drinking alone if the dog is home.“ “There was nothing glorious about the life of a drinker or the life of a writer. That’s the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens, you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens, you drink…