Collie any, anytime.

I need to make it back to Texas in September.
Basil, one of the two border collies I grew up with, is on one of his last legs.  You see, another of the 4 was slightly damaged in a car accident a while back. 
We wrapped it in nylons to stop the bleeding that day and it [...]

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You can’t cry underwater.

Crying is not something we did in front of open doors in my family. 
Isn’t that the opposite of behind closed doors? 
Crying was something my mother and father both did in a small enclosed spaces like cars, closets, or bathrooms.  I rebelled, of course, by having the hardest most Claire Danes chin crinkle help me I’m [...]

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Fool House

Remember that episode of Full House where Danny Tanner takes the very young morning show intern on a date to the Slaughter concert? 
Well, Danny wears a pair of those embarrassing Neon Laid Back Super Bowl Dad Hammer Pants and his date makes him sneak in!  The lesson (because there’s always a lesson) is that growing [...]

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