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Robin Ford Wallace
Oct 21, 202012 min read
Welcome To The Apostrophe Store. May I He’p You?
They say the secret to entrepreneurship is to find a need and fill it. That’s why, when I moved here many years ago and was looking...
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Robin Ford Wallace
Jan 25, 201913 min read
Fat-Wah Journals Part II: Racing Rabbits and Burning Trains
One recent day the sun was shining—for once!—and I was trotting around the Four Fields track chanting under my breath: And we run because...
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Robin Ford Wallace
Jan 10, 20198 min read
Once More Into the Breach! Wherein Your Narrator Reports from the Front Lines of the Annual January
Let me tell you about my colonoscopy. Ha ha. Not really. I just couldn’t resist the line. Sucks you in, doesn’t it? Like after that, what...
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Robin Ford Wallace
Dec 18, 20187 min read
Merry Christmas From the Sow's Ear: Some Pearls of Wisdom (Because I Can't Afford a Real Pre
There is a saying that everyone you meet has something to teach you. I collect sayings like that, in just the same way I read...
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Robin Ford Wallace
Sep 28, 20185 min read
Naked Came the Gardener: Wherein Bob “Streaks” for Survival (Retro BLA)
I dug this vintage BLA up when I thought The Planet's garden columnist, master gardener Ann Bartlett, whom The Planet esteems and honors...
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Robin Ford Wallace
Aug 31, 20188 min read
I'll Never Grow Up! I'll Never Grow Up! The Yearly Birthday Bob
So. I’m a year older. Again! Don’t wish me happy birthday. It’s been several weeks ago by now—this rag keeps me busy!—and anyway I am...
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Robin Ford Wallace
Jun 20, 20187 min read
Dirt Roads, Pickup Trucks, Horseflies and The Good Old Days: An Earnest Treatise on The Recognition
I had this epiphany the other day when I was walking the dogs: At my house our habit on weekday afternoons, when one of us is working at...
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Robin Ford Wallace
May 10, 20188 min read
Confessions of a Half-Assed Hottie: Throwin' in the Towel at Mid-Century-Plus (Who’s Counting?)
My late mother once insulted the way I dressed, saying: “You wear all those tight clothes, trying to look sexy.” (Mothers say things like...
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Robin Ford Wallace
Mar 25, 20185 min read
Vintage Bob's Little Acre: Spuds, A Crop for the Lazy
This is a Bob's Little Acre about potatoes that I wrote while, as is manifestly evident, still sore from a visit to England in 2005. It's...
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Robin Ford Wallace
Feb 13, 201819 min read
Robin and Mary’s Not-So-Excellent Mardi Gras Adventure (Featuring Pink Feathers, Perdition and One S
Photo: Shot from one of a million endless Mardi Gras parades, 2013. It's Mardi Gras Tuesday. And I am not enjoying it! I have a nasty...
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Robin Ford Wallace
Jan 15, 20184 min read
Onions Make Excellent Paperweights. Sort Of.
Editor's Note: This Bob's Little Acre is from 2013. It turned up this morning in my Facebook Memories, and I thought I'd post it here...
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Robin Ford Wallace
Aug 14, 20178 min read
Vot? I Look Like I Got No Tomatoes?
It’s been an odd year for the garden. It’s been an odd year to be me. But I figure what the hell, I still got tomatoes. The tomato thing...
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Robin Ford Wallace
Apr 25, 20176 min read
F'Cu! F'Cu! Two Pistols and the Great Lettuce Massacree
Friday lunch was a disaster. Lunch at my house means salad. That's life! A fat girl lives here. On occasions of special indulgence it...
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Robin Ford Wallace
Apr 14, 20174 min read
Classic Bob: THEY’LL NEVER TAKE US ALIVE
It's tax time, I'm one civic meeting and God knows how many hard nooz events behind, criminal trials start next week and all I really...
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Robin Ford Wallace
Mar 21, 20174 min read
How I Became a Child of Light (And Dangerously Insane)
Editor's Note: I had a depressing Monday yesterday and found myself flapping my invisible fairy wings to adjust my attitude. Which...
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Robin Ford Wallace
Mar 11, 20174 min read
And Then You Win: A Brief History of the Dog-Free Zone (Dog's Little Acre)
Editor's Note; Rifling through the files The Planet found this vintage Bob's little Acre and could not resist rerunning it because it was...
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Robin Ford Wallace
Mar 8, 20176 min read
Bob on Garlic: Who's the Boss Here Anyway?
Since January, the garlic cloves in my kitchen have been shouting, "I want to live!" I've been letting them. They send forth shoots so...
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Robin Ford Wallace
Nov 22, 20166 min read
How About Them Apples?
Do you know how it feels when you're in love? When no matter how big the crowd, there's no one in the room but the two of you? When it...
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Robin Ford Wallace
Sep 4, 20162 min read
In the Neat of the Height: Hardening in Got Weather
Despite the drooling grout that has kept the soil drone-buy this long sot hummer, I'm sappy to hay that I've harvested funs of 'tude...
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Robin Ford Wallace
Aug 18, 20164 min read
You Want a Nice Deep Hole
Editor's Note: Since this was written, the mean cat who used to crouch menacingly on top of the freezer has gone to his reward. Another...
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