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Patty, the youngest of my three nieces, and Teddy, her husband, have a four-and-a-half-year-old black Lab named Bruce. Bruce might just be the nicest dog you’ll ever meet: mellow, friendly, good-natured, well-trained — and happy to do pretty much whatever. Beagle Man followers first met Bruce back in 2012, during LA/XC-2, when Ricky the Beagle […]
I am having the best time EV-ER! We’re out at the beach in Montauk, and Patty and Teddy brought my cousin Bruce. This is the first time I’ve met him, but he is the GREATEST! I love this guy! At the very beginning we weren’t so sure: I sniffed, he sniffed, I barked, he barked. […]
This past weekend Kemba jumped off the roof. Yes, my writing students at Blackham Middle School in Bridgeport, this is hyperbole. But not by much. Wait, though. Let’s back up a little. From the time Kemba emigrated from Canada, as a little ball of fluff, he never seemed to be where we were sure we’d […]
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I am SO, SO, SO excited! Mrs. B told me that to welcome me and Beagle Man home from LA/XC-4, and to celebrate the completion of Beagle Man’s series of four cross-country road trips, and to congratulate Robby on his college graduation, she’s throwing a big backyard barbecue FOR ALL THE DOGS I KNOW! It’s […]
LA/XC-4 DAY THIRTY-ONE: POSTING FROM WESTPORT, CT Last-day mileage from Port Clinton, OH to Westport, Ct: 571 Total LA/XC-4 mileage: 8,710 Road Music: Sirius cycle; Spurs-Clippers; Gretchen Wilson (Here For the Party); Little Big Town (Tornado, Pain Killer); Mets-Yanks Weather leaving Port Clinton Sunday morning: 55 gorgeous, cloudless degrees Weather arriving Westport Sunday night / […]
When I’m not writing for Beagle Man, I’m writing for brands. So here’s a summary of my trip in the form of a Best Western commercial. Best Western Hotels/“Hank and Kemba” :30 WE OPEN ON A MAN AND HIS DOG WALKING INTO THE LOBBY OF A BEST WESTERN. WE HEAR HIS VOICE FROM OFF-CAMERA. VO: […]
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LA/XC-4 DAYS TWENTY-NINE AND THIRTY: POSTING FROM PORT CLINTON, OHIO Two-day mileage from Kenosha, WI to Port Clinton, OH: 481 Total LA/XC-4 mileage: 8,139 Road Music: “Sweet Home Alabama” endlessly, to see if it still deserves #1 on Hank Herman’s 300 Favorite Songs of All Time, the revised edition, coming out this summer (I think […]
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LA/XC-4 DAYS TWENTY-TWO THROUGH TWENTY-EIGHT: POSTING FROM KENOSHA, WI Seven-day mileage from Mount Shasta, CA to Kenosha, WI: 2,761 Total LA/XC-4 mileage: 7,659 Road Music: Sirius cycle; NBA “red zone” (e.g., listening to the ends of all the playoff games); LA/XC-4 playlist (The Band Perry, Lee Brice, Tom Petty, et al); Hank’s 300 Favorite Songs […]
Help me out here. I really do want to play by the rules . . . but what are the rules? As far as I can tell, they keep changing. Last Monday, down at Huntington Beach in California (seems like a long time ago!), Beagle Man sent me charging into the ocean after tennis balls. […]
There was this Looney Tunes cartoon when I was little: This old man’s walking down the street, when he comes across a dancing frog in a top hat singing “Hello! Ma Baby.” He can’t believe his eyes! But when he tries to show his discovery to literally anyone else on the planet, the frog just […]
