Some people swore that the house was haunted. Me, I just saw a very old house that was in surprisingly good repair listed way below market value. But Maggie? “It’ll be an adventure, Joe!” she squealed, writing out the check then and there to the amazement of the realtor. Had he accidently mentioned the ghost [...]

dogwiggle (n) physical manifestation of unspeakable, infinite joy. I invented the word as a child. It was such an undeniable, concrete, clearly demonstrable state of being that it had to have a word associated with it. I would come home from school or to wherever I had been off all day and I would turn [...]

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Spring Formal The pear tree at my window Is freshly fitted in her crinoline And taffeta tufts; And the winter, banished by two days, Raves with one last blow And swipes at her blossomed frockery, Whipping the dervish fabric; And she takes to dance in fits, starts and stops, Grand leaps and swoons, Intent on [...]