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 History of The Faire GodhoggetThe story of the Faire Godhogget goes all the way back to 1990 in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, in the early days of our family. Cyn and I were renting an apartment on West Newton St. in a house that was suddenly up for sale. The house was divided into two apartments. One on the second floor and ours on the first. The real estate company selling the building became

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Born in the spring of 1861 in a modest East Anglian village on the wooded edges of Bury St. Edmunds, George David Darrow was the son of a gardener and a washerwoman. A solitary child, Darrow showed early signs of a vivid inner world, sketching woodland creatures and imagined spirits on sheets of whatever scrap paper he could find, much of which smelled of fish or meat that the paper had once

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 This is an attempt by me at making a rhyme. I should have ended it by repeating the word "stew." Oh well, live and learn. I was more interested in making the illustration.

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 Trump has destroyed whatever Europe thought and respected about the USA.

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 What is going on Faceberg? Why are you blocking my simply sharing this trailer for a new adult animated television show? Is it because something about the subject matter of healing mushrooms frightens our overlords? I highly recommend Common Side Effects as a well written and animated piece of entertainment. I am watching on MaxCommon Side Effects on Adult SwimCommon Side Effects on

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 Some Kind of Monster

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Happy Inauguration Day! 

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     As I look through my huge collection of photography I have stored on hard drives and back up media, I usually come upon images of a cat we named KupKake. When we adopted her, in 2005, she was so very tiny and the name seemed to fit her.    Her intense eyes still stare back at me from her photos. Her gaze still penetrates me deeply.    When

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This Fourth of July holiday stirred memories of this same day ‌forty-eight years ago. That day was the big US celebration of the Bicentennial--200 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence. I was fifteen years old.My memory of the 1976 Fourth of July was that of a quiet, boring day in the country. Once again, Dad was hiding out in Pittsburgh leaving Mom and me to ourselves. We

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 The Man Who Planted Trees by Frédéric Back (1987)

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 Mamma rabbit returned to her favorite spot near the corner of my hedgerow. I gave her some old carrot bits. Her babies are all grown now. She is alone.

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   A lonely gate stands in an unmowed field atop a small knob of a hill; its fence had long ago fallen victim to the brambles. I discovered this gate one warm summer evening on my daily walk through the country. I became intrigued by the simple beauty of its rough-hewn character, probably carved by a farmer a hundred years ago. The wood slats that made up the gate had faint Celtic

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 I am very saddened to learn of the passing of one of the greatest artists in the world of the cartoon art form. Mr. Kambiz Derambakhsh of Iran has succumbed to the savage course of Covid-19 at 79.The world has lost a master of the cartooning art. His drawings were precise, wordless and sublime. His delicate use of color only enhanced his beautiful line work. Damn this Covid!  &

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In Memoriam: The Pooter--(Tiggy - 2006-2021)Tigs has traveled on her mysterious journey that we all must go one day. Last night, Tigs used what ever energy she had left to visit JD in his bed and made her way to ours for the early morning. She was saying goodbye.Too never hear her thundering purr beside my head again! I am inconsolable!She quietly, peacefully slipped away around 10:30 pm, July 20

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The USA Divided: America after Trump

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I've an idea floating in the soup of my cranium about a mother tree. I've a real problem getting ideas to completion that I will blame on my Asperger's, ADD, whatever we are calling it now. 

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Trump Evening Wear

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Trump's Kool-Aid

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Available for publication/use through Toonpool Toon Agent

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