Wherever It Goes
Hello, This seems as good a place as any to start my small contribution to Daily Kos. Aside from the writing, I haven't a clue as to what all the little "words" really mean...rec? But I am more than...
View ArticlePuppy Love
Well, Hello Again. This is the second little essay (blog/diary) I'm trying to publish this morning. It was the first thing I had written after nothing for fifteen years. I thought I was sharing, but...
View ArticleParking Meneuver
You can believe this or not... I barely do. I will sy that given the op, I'd do it again in a heart beat!
View ArticleBuds
Settling into a good friendship took three years after our divorce. But it was worth the effort and I strongly urge others to give it a try. Besides, breaking rules feels great. Who says "they" have to...
View ArticleA True Christmas Story
We had toyed with the idea of driving over to Maine. Then we talked about heading to Montreal. But when my husband and I thought about it, a trip from Central Vermont to the coast would be quite a...
View ArticleWhat We Really Want for Christmas
Are you really having a wonderful holiday, so brimming with warmth and good cheer you wish it would never end? Or are you among those who are only looking for relief when it will soon be over, left...
View ArticleMidJanuary Schmooze
I’m just not into all the noise around Christmas, which starts in October and reaches sonic boom proportions by mid-December. Besides the unpleasant feeling of perhaps being judged as a Scrooge for not...
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KosAbility: Good Genes and a French Irish Temperament
Haven't given it much thought untiil lately, but having gotten off to what some might consider a rough start as a wee person, I have managed just fine in the grand scheme of things. Here's the story. I...
View ArticleChris Day
I've known Chris forever... like 35 years or so. His folks ran a peony farm in Northfield where Chris did all the planting and tending of acres of plants. People came from all over the country to see...
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KosAbility: The Pills
When a friend asked if I would deliver some old medicines to the local police department to be disposed of, I didn’t hesitate. My pup Kobi and I were just leaving for our bike path walk and the friend...
View ArticleParking Menuevers
Here I am in the lower back corner of the dog park with my Wire Haired Dauchsund, Kobi. I look up and see a young man coming thru the gate with his pup and am grateful because it is really cold and a...
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Kitchen Table Kibitzing: Thursday, September 3, 2015: GAZPACHO!
Come oh come ye tea-thirsty restless ones -- the kettle boils, bubbles and sings, musically. ~ Rabindranath TagoreThis is a diary about gazpacho. Not your ordinary cold tomato soup, mind you, but...
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Kitchen Table Kibitzing: Sept 14, 2015 Walks With Kobi
When people ask what I am up to, at age 75 there isn’t much to tell. However, my life still teems with fascinating things which require not much more than keeping one's eyes and ears open. Wherever I...
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Kitchen Table Kibitzing 10/2: Walks with Kobi
At age Seventy- five, my routine is generally quiet, my closest companion, a Wire Haired Dachshund named Kobi, with whom I walk every day, weather permitting. Even in the dead of winter, you’ll find us...
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Walking With KobiBefore settling down into horizontal wisps of soft salmon clouds, the sun looked like a forest fire raging behind the trees this morning. Twenty degrees will reach 40 by the time Kobi...
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A New Year of GrowthOnce upon a time there was a young princess who lived in a small castle in the smallest state in a pretty large country. Well, it wasn’t really a castle. It was more of a cottage,...
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Kitchen Table Kibitzing: Walking with Kobi
Walking with KobiBy drudauA New Year of GrowthOnce upon a time there was a young princess who lived in a small castle in the smallest state in a pretty large country. Well, it wasn’t really a castle....
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Kitchen Table Kibitzing: Walking with Kobi
Benjamin the mini Schnauzer was still with me when I first moved into my little apartment. Deaf and blind, but still pretty darn perky at 18, it pleases me to believe he wanted to be certain I was okay...
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Kitchen Table Kibitizing: February 20 - Walking with Kobi
When temps are in the lower digits, I spend more time prepping than actually being outside. What typically takes about half an hour, as Kobi checks his In Boxes along our route, can be tended to in...
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