Best Of

Here you will find the best entries (as determined by a polling of readers) from the blog’s original incarnation. The problem being, of course, that the word ‘best’ implies that these entries are in some way good and, if you’ve read anything I’ve ever written, you will know that this is not the case. But I still appreciate you acting like this is a worthwhile use of your reading time, mom.

Dear Brownie J. Chandler III

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Brownie

 

Dear Brownie J. Chandler III,

I don’t know how to write this. Seven words in and tears are streaming down my face and there’s nothing I can do to stop them. In August of 2004 you came into my life an abandoned puppy, tossed into a cardboard box that was cast into a parking lot during a horrendous thunderstorm. I was dead set against the idea of adopting a dog on that day. “No way,” I told my girlfriend at the time. “We already have two cats and we live in a tiny apartment. It’s not going to happen.”

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