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    My Brush With Death, March 19, 2021
    vmangion
    • Apr 10
    • 7 min

    My Brush With Death, March 19, 2021

    Journal Entry March 16, 2021, noon By the time the pet psychic I’d contacted e-mailed me back, she’d already had her session with Dewey...
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    vmangion
    • Jul 23, 2019
    • 11 min

    Horse Crazy (Volume 69, September 14, 1999 — November 13, 1999

    My mother died on August 30, 1999. With some money she left me, I fulfilled my life-long dream of getting my own horse. Against all...
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    vmangion
    • Jun 27, 2018
    • 1 min

    Suicidal Octopus (Volume 132, February 12 - April 12, 2017)

    Thursday, March 9, 2017, 2:43 a.m. Ellis actually thought I would sleep better, now that Tucker is dead. Isn’t that cute? 3:55 a.m.,...
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    Scrappy (Volume 91, May 29 - September 11, 2006)
    vmangion
    • Feb 15, 2018
    • 6 min

    Scrappy (Volume 91, May 29 - September 11, 2006)

    From May to September What I mostly remember Is animal crises, Caregiving and fly-sies. I’m thrilled summer’s over With its slaframine...
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    vmangion
    • Jan 20, 2018
    • 3 min

    Cop Lover and a Bovine Honor (Volume 52, May 10, 1996 - October 19, 1996)

    May 15, 1996 Yesterday I got stopped for speeding in Cross Plains. I was very touched by the whole incident. I approached the cop with...
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    vmangion
    • Jan 7, 2018
    • 3 min

    Animal Snippets (Volume 114 - again - October 30, 2012 - January 28, 2013)

    (November of 2012 was a really sad month. Two of our beloved cats disappeared within two days of each other, most likely the victims of...
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    Untangling Ungulates (Volume 118, September 16, 2103 - January 6, 2014)
    vmangion
    • Nov 3, 2017
    • 7 min

    Untangling Ungulates (Volume 118, September 16, 2103 - January 6, 2014)

    Thanksgiving Day, November 28, 2013 En route to Ellen and Jack’s house in Waunakee. Ellis is granting me 20 minutes of silence so I can...
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    vmangion
    • Mar 29, 2017
    • 2 min

    Bunny and Elephants (Volume 112, June-July, 2012)

    July 5, 2012 Sunday morning we walked Sylvie. There was a beautiful bunny munching grass near the foot of the driveway. “Hi, Bunny!” I...
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    vmangion
    • Mar 24, 2017
    • 4 min

    Horse-Happy Kid (Volume 7, April-August 1980)

    July 17, 1980 When I love him the most is when I’m the coldest and aloof-est (sometimes). Or else it’s times like last night, after the...
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    vmangion
    • Mar 12, 2017
    • 1 min

    A Conversation with Dewey (Volume 132, February 2017 - ?)

    (One more passage from my current journal) March 9, 2017 Dewey has been caked with mud for the past few days. The mud layer finally dried...
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    vmangion
    • Feb 15, 2017
    • 4 min

    Of Monkeys and Horses (Volume 73 (again!), May-August 2000)

    (I spent a lot of time in the spring and summer of 2000 looking for a companion horse for my horse, Rabbit.) Sunday, July 9, 2000 Jeanne...
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    vmangion
    • Feb 1, 2017
    • 4 min

    The New Horse (Volume 73, May-August, 2000)

    (This entry was written three days after my second horse, Dewey, was delivered. I got him because my first horse, Rabbit, a yearling,...
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