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This spring the budding flowers and vegetable garden greenery of New Albany look much less chewed than in the past.  Knowledgeable observers attribute the change to the fearsome bunny-hunting team of Kasey and Penny. Rabbits throughout the neighborhood cower in fear when this formidable pair steps outside on their latest expedition.  They know that the [...]

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Recently a friend survived a heart attack.  He didn’t smoke, kept his weight down, ate the right things, and got exercise.  But his father had had a heart attack, and when my friend reached his mid-50s, so did he. When something like that happens to a person you know, it shakes you.  You think about [...]

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Robert is, candidly, a somewhat clumsy name.  It doesn’t exactly flow trippingly off the tongue.  Starting with the rolling “r,” then flipping to the explosive “b,” then ending with that hard “t” — it’s just filled with too many discordant sounds. “Robert” didn’t even sound good when actors on last season’s Game of Thrones talked [...]

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Kinda Cool

Back in 1982 when I was twenty five working as a teller for Banc Ohio a customer passed me a five dollar silver certificate so I exchanged it for five dollars and kept it hoping it would be worth something. A few weeks later I decided to give it to mom’s dad, Grandpa Neal, in [...]

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It’s been brutally hot in Columbus the past few days, with the mercury reaching the high side of 90.  As a result, I’ve gotten my first sunburn of the season. There are people who can “lay down a base” without getting burned and gradually get darker and darker, without telltale peeling, as the summer progresses.  [...]

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This morning, as I was walking through our downstairs hallway, I noticed an intruder in the house.  At first I thought it was a moth, but instead it was a small green frog, clinging to the wall at about baseboard level. How it got into our house is anybody’s guess.  I’d guess it was a [...]

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We’ve had Kasey for a few months now, and mutual adjustments are still being made.  The latest challenging area really hits home, because it’s disturbing our precious sleep. I don’t know how often Kasey had slept in a crate before she arrived at our house, but I do know that she spent some time in [...]

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Eugene Polley, 96, died on Sunday.  Few Americans recognize his name, although virtually every American uses his invention on a daily — in some cases, hourly, or even more distressingly frequent — basis. Polley held 18 U.S. patents, but his crown jewel was the wireless TV remote controller.  In 1955 he invented the Flash-Matic, a [...]

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How do you want your life to end?  An even more difficult question:  how do you want the lives of your loved ones to end?  An article in New York magazine, about a family’s struggle with their mother’s long, slow decline — and the related emotional and societal costs — raises those stark heartbreaking issues. [...]

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Our bright and gifted nephew and godson, Andrew, put up a Facebook post stating that the David Brooks’ column The Age of Innocence in the New York Times was “great fodder for Webner House.”  I agree. In fact, I’d like to try a kind of experiment with Andrew’s suggestion that we really haven’t done before [...]

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The boys are gone, back to their new home bases.  It was wonderful to see them, but with their departure the house feels in a certain state of . . . disarray. There are beds to be stripped, clothes to be washed and dried and hung, clean towels to be folded, and sheets and blankets [...]

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We’ve discovered that Kasey is the Harry Houdini of dogs. We keep Penny and Kasey in crates overnight because I’m not keen on sleeping with dogs.  Kasey, however, has figured out how to get out of one of the crates.  This morning when I came down to take the dogs for our walk she was [...]

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This Mother’s Day, I want to take a moment to thank the two greatest mothers in the history of the world:  my mother, and my wife. I knew my mother first, of course.  If I could somehow probe the recesses of my brain and call up my first memory, it would no doubt be of [...]

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Last Sunday Kish and I were getting ready to take the dogs for a walk when there was a knock at the door.  We opened our front door to find a teenage girl and her mother, both unknown to us, on the doorstep. The girl explained that they were members of a nearby church.  She [...]

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Whatever Kasey’s dominant strain is, it clearly was bred for burrowing.  Every morning she leaps onto our bed and, through various paw scratches, head tosses, and other gyrations, messes up the sheets and covers and sneaks underneath.  She then promptly covers herself up, falls asleep, and begins snoring. The last step in the morning getting [...]

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