Rachel Dolezal stumps me with her explanation

My mind and heart are open to those who don’t identify with the crowd with which they are born. Simply put, you bet expectations put upon you by others can be the wrongful weight of ten thousand mornings past and future. Gender. Sexual orientation. When people in our world raise their fists, shake at the…

Call it the Beach Bar, please and thank you

The second drive the mile down Depot Road to the Atlantic Ocean was not met with a shuttered establishment. The Tiki Bar was … Hold on there, enthusiastic sir! As my dear wife Karen and I practically skipped from the parking lot to the little open-air joint already packed with people on the Friday Happy…

The latest label in our tour

While shopping for other things as our Cape Cod pre-tourist-rush June week in the Happy Cottage wound down, my dear wife Karen and I had to pull down one more newbie to sit next to the Dark Horse Cab Sav that I brought from home. So we threw it in with the bag of Blue…

In Provincetown, the tide is out

There was more to our trip to Providence than the great Straight from P-Town T-shirt door-knocking venture. This tip-of-Cape Cod city is a fixture on My Dear Wife Karen and I’s Traditions List for our pre-tourist-boom June week in the Happy Cottage. It’s dog friendly. So we took a left from the main street and…

The Chatham shoppers’ T-shirt reveal

The Life Is Good store in Chatham has made my dear wife Karen and I’s Traditions List on this annual pre-tourist-boom June week in Cape Cod. And we love to buy each other one T-shirt, of course. We choose our own. Look hard through the racks. Fancy what we love in life. I went with…

Dogamous takes to the paddle

The first year we decided our beloved rescue mutt Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle was better off with us in the Happy Cottage in Cape Cod rather than a week boarding somewhere in Syracuse, we fibbed to our year-plus pup. We told her a mucky nearby dog park pond was the ocean. The second year…

If You Are a Quote Lover, Day Three

It’s time for me to take my final bow in the BloggyVille challenge If You Are a Quote Lover. I was nominated by Soumichatterjeenath of anunwrappedsoul. I accepted while on vacation in Cape Cod, and haven’t regretted it a bit. Thank you, Soumi, for giving me three days of indoor fun. If you haven’t yet,…

More cocktail sauce, why didn’t you?

The phone-placed order to the folks at Kream ‘N’ Kone was quite specific. I’m practically a drill seargant about these things. Polite but firm. I want my order to be right after my dear wife Karen and I drive to a place, pick up our food, return, unwrap, and face the plates. Besides, we’ve been…