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Bovine bliss

As a child growing up in Philadelphia, I neither knew nor cared much about cows. When the family piled into our car and headed west through the dairy states towards Minnesota, my dad’s home, I enjoyed seeing them, and idly … Continue reading

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“The rankest compound of villanous smell that ever offended nostril.” **

“I smell garbage,” I said. From his seat outside in the carport/terrace/studio, Jack replied, “It’s not me!” Jack can’t smell and doesn’t care much when I complain about odors. There was a noxious smell in the kitchen a few months … Continue reading

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