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How Pebbles made me a dog person
It was 1987. Vermont. I was young, dumb, and living with a woman whose Rottweiler was very pregnant.
Roger Coryell
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Joy is a three-letter word with big power
It is small on paper but enormous in practice. It can turn an ordinary day into something you remember. It can make hard days survivable. It can loosen the grip…
November 2025
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Thanks, but … no thanks! Keep the lawn gnomes
Look, I appreciate the thought. I do. I know you care, I know you’re busy, and I know you bravely entered a HomeGoods during peak Mariah Carey season and survived.…
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Let’s talk about winter words
Not the normal ones. Not snow and holly and “ugh, relatives.” The weird ones. The words that sound like they’ve already had three hot toddies and are reading obscure poetry…
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Shopping words?
Word junkie: the bull market in buzzwords, with boots on the ground
September 2025
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Word Junkie: A harvest of words
Orillia, Ontario. CAN – October 16, 2012
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In praise of worms
Red worms on a white background