Old Dog Dumps (ODD): Dispatches from a Journeyman Writer

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This is an artist’s rendition of me, not the real me. The real me has even less hair on his head. Sad to say, I’m a tick magnet. You heard me right, a tick magnet. Not a chick magnet—never have been, never will be (with the exception of my wife April’s attraction to me in a moment of weakness more than four decades ago). I live near Dunnville, Ontario, Canada on a hobby farm that contains innumerable ticks, and these little parasites love to hitch a ride on me. Once aboard, they crawl around until they find a spot—if I’m not quick enough—to bury their heads in my skin and suck my blood. Little blighters! Then again, with April I live a lovely life on these 13.79 acres of Haldimand County cla

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