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Kipling Puppy Returns: Humor & Eartha Kitt’n

I have neglected A Writer’s Life blog too much over the past month or two since the Green Darner Press version of Sandcastle and Other Stories was published. “Put the book down already,...

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Spend Halloween With Eartha Kitt’n + 10 Scary Cat Films

My favorite season is here. Fall into fall. Did anyone celebrate the solstice? Planning the trip to the pumpkin patch? Here is a photo of one visit to a most excellent pumpkin patch...

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Happy 2nd Birthday: Eartha Kitt’n & Ajax The Gray

All of the pets around Islewood Farm have a purpose. I remember driving to another farmhouse about an hour north to pick out two barn cats after Figaro, the calico, went on walkabout...

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Happy Half Birthday Kipling: Puppy 6 Months Old

Kipling is happy about many things this month of April but being six months old makes her the happiest.  Happy 1/2 birthday, Kipling — may all your wishes be fulfilled. Zippy gave Kipling...

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Zippy Is Up On Lobo’s Pet Wall

  Russell Blake started his online Pet Wall to honor his own wondrous dog, Lobo. The book, An Angel With Fur, came pouring out as the story of how Lobo adopted Russell, which began one fine...

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9/11 2011

In Memoriam… Figaro following us around the shed… Figaro 1999-2010 Lucille always willing to get wet… Lucille 1995-2008 Myrtle, part Irish Setter/German shepherd, a graceful mutt… Myrtle 1992-2008 The Girls quick to strike...

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In The Woods by Tana French — A Recommendation (with Ajax The Gray & Eartha Kitt’n)

It’s raining again and there’s a lot of indoor working/revising/catching up…curl up with a good book like In the Woods by Tana French. Zippy watches over his new charges: Ajax The Gray &...

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