#44 PUPPY—SCOOTER’S RETROSPECTIVE: 2021-2022

Let’s be fair. My darling flat-nosed infancy ended a good while ago. Even adolescence is behind me—what with adventures under the sofa and mattress, the deaths of Lambchops, those months during which my nose, body, and voice grew, and for the first time, things got clipped: my heavy coat, my toenails, and, well, my little boy balls. So goes growing up

#3 WORD SERIES: "F-word"

It’s a chase I’m going to cut to here in this look at the F-word, even though I find a peek at the history of profanity resembles the first sip of a Moscow Mule – there’s more there, and there’s no reason not to reach the bottom – and let me tell you . . .