The Shitshow Observed
From his home's porch, writer Martin J. Smith confronts mortality, grief, old dogs, regrettable choices, late-life eccentricities, deteriorating fitness, double-wide burial urns, and the absurdist dilemma of tooth whitening at age seventy.
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From his home's porch, writer Martin J. Smith confronts mortality, grief, old dogs, regrettable choices, late-life eccentricities, deteriorating fitness, double-wide burial urns, and the absurdist dilemma of tooth whitening at age seventy.
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