Kickass, the doorstop dog, agrees with the keeper that many things go into sustaining a relationship.  One of the keeper’s old friends liked to say his marriage was held together by a…

  Kickass, the doorstop dog, along with the keeper, is trying to process the good news aspects of being old as defined by New Yorker writer Jonathan Franzen who says if you are…

  Kickass, the doorstop dog, occasionally loses total control of the keeper’s inclination to venture into areas where his—the keeper’s, powers of observation and analysis are not above average, and such is the…

  Kickass, the doorstop dog, says this thing between men and cars is, of course, an untreatable systemic condition, and one that women have somehow mostly put into the handy perspective of essential…

  Kickass, the doorstop dog, says there is little if any difference between town dogs and country dogs, but the keeper says that is–or at least was not the case back when the…

  Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis spent the better part of the day meandering across Wisconsin in their return from promoting the keeper’s novel Margaret’s War before a…

  Kickass, the doorstop dog, observes that since it now comes down to the Church of Walmart—that great destroyer of  small town America with its evangelizing of cheapness–making the initial move toward gun…

  Kickass, the doorstop dog, would like to mark the apparent end of the two-month- long absence of common sense, decency and compassion in the state of Wisconsin as its citizens stand idly…