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- Anu, Epilogue
- Wilbur will never be THAT old!
- Anu, Part 3
- Anu, Part 2
- Anu, Part 1
- I don't draw so good
- A meeting of the cliques
- Good bike news and bad bike news
- Nut allergy
- Space Jammin'
- Growing old and dying in a tavern together
- George takes good care of my baby
- The fountain (actually a well) of immunity
- Belle's drawings
- Leg or Arm?
- Lake Altoona Beach
- Content Expertise
- Olive Garden
- Homeless day shelter
- Spring better have sprung
- Life's work
- A thousand points of light for the homeless man
- Movie night!
- Smoke em if you got em
- Ah, single parenthood
- Career freedom
- More birthday talk
- Naggy Jewish Mothers and Birthdays
- Pandemic Pals on the Road to Wellness
- Decades of blissful (un)marriage
- PJ, the non-vaxxer
- First jabs!
- Confessing my soda bread sins
- Simpsons Forever!
- Cardio and playgrounds for the soul.
- Life's to short for sharing
- Soda bread is harder than it looks... at first.
- That one Racys regular...
- All vegetable diet gettin' real
- Wilbur contains multitudes
- Home-bound!
- Homeward bound
- In fact, go see a Star War or two (or three)
- The Great British Bake-Off Caper
- Not-Straight in the 90s
- Zelda 35!
- Late winter sledding!
- How history will remember this
- Pets of all stripes
- The Covid shots start to roll in!
- The people in the comic read the comic in the comic
- Goodbye old Subaru... but not goodbye forever
- Goodbye Subaru (and hello new Subaru)
- Squirrels are not so cute, really
- Fighting the Covid good fight
- The old couple in the bar
- Satan's Cake
- Milk Dud Peanut Butter Balls
- Post-surgery and reality TV (the good, non-American kind)
- Jog on wood
- Strange cake
- Cool Runnings!
- A dog and his boy
- Heather makes an album
- The sweets of mid-winter
- What a time for a coffee shop to be takeout only!
- The darkest heart of winter
- The REAL dog days of winter
- A new member of the family
- The Dog Days of Winter
- Sketchy AirBnB
- The before times!
- Early 2021 supply chain blues
- Wisconsin: Where -10 is too warm
- A new lockdown hideout
- True Crime in Eau Claire, WI
- The legend of Oscar
- My son tells a joke
- FLAME THROWERS
- (Not) taking Therese's dad out for drinks
- A banal tour
- Surgery recovery buddies
- Encounter at the Asian market
- Of parenting and other things
- Pain solidarity
- Heather gets some news of Therese
- Career Trials, Tribulations, and Triumphs
- Electric blankets and take-out
- More Covid electric blanket parties
- George comes home
- On the home stretch with Mr. Robot
- Good times with Ben Sidran
- Deep thoughts with my son
- George hits the road
- Dream donuts
- Remembering Krispy Kreme
- Wilbur doesn't show his age
- January 6 4ever
- Catching up with Belle
- Career Day
- Weird weather and homesickness
- Catching up with Therese
- Bri Squared
- Beach blanket party (well,not exactly...)
- In the words of the great Baba Fats
- Jan 6 Begins
- Therese's pit crew
- Isolation for everyone
- Never as bad as it appears
- Midterm surprise
- Living the Blog Life
- Minnesota Bound
- Upper Midwest Road Trip!
- Mr. Robot!
- Good news for the new year
- MANDO!
- The new wonder years
- A New Years miracle
- Waiting for a (soon to come) miracle
- Therese's liver transplant comes through.
- Covid-safe high school reuinion
- A Magical Christmas Near Death Experience
- A Christmas Yoga
- A 90s nostalgia Christmas
- The people in the comic read the comic in the comic
- Transferred to a third hospital
- In and out of lucidity
- Good night
- A sudden sense of hope
- A tender moment against a sad backdrop
- Heather brings the hope
- Meet the family: The Epilogue
- Fear and loathing for Christmas
- Adopt-a-cat
- Belle has her own "meet the parents" moment
- I finally attempt to draw the Witch King
- Therese gets the "meet the family" report
- Therese's dad, the doctor
- Helicopters!
- Meet the family!
- Matthew makes a house call
- Good music in a closed down bar
- Billy Joel and an actual fire
- I forgot who the Witch King was!
- One Punch Man!
- Fussing over a friend
- The foreshadowing comes to a head
- LASIK BEAMS
- The Covid war
- Naps and donuts
- It's true. Cats are weird
- Two old music lovers muse about Adele
- The lockdown sneaks indoors
- Friendship and Vaccines
- Chariots of Exhaustion
- The metamorphosis
- GROGU??
- Korean by way of Spanish, couched in English
- Crossing death's path in Red Wing
- Red Wing, here we come!
- A strange Thanksgiving repast
- Hair in an Era of Covid
- Not all who wander are lost
- 'MERCA
- Pseudoscience in an era of fake news
- Managing expectations
- It's science!
- Sk8er Boi
- Meet the press
- More fond memories of the late Eric the White
- Oh, Chesterton!
- A Covid-era virtual funeral
- Our departed, omni-present friend
- Superskate!
- Eric the White's Unofficial Wake
- The death of Eric the White
- Great moments with Eric the White, Part 2
- Great moments with Eric the White, Part 1
- Sk8 skooled again
- Sk8 skooled
- Into the blunderdome
- Cheshire grin
- Baked potato energy
- Done running for the season(?)
- Run 4 Life
- Trump era politicking
- Trump tantrums
- Shelter from the storm
- A walk in the park is no walk in the park
- SPOILER: Trump Didn't Pull Through
- Candy corn!
- The Halloween Rush
- Therese is ready to stop the steal
- Go climb a tree
- Therese's Gunshow
- "Tomorrow this day's madness did prepare."
- Recovering from not-Covid
- The first Covid death in my circles
- Hard decisions
- Suspended disbelief
- Macho names and head shops
- Video Game Nostalgia
- Boys are weird
- Knock on Wood
- Winter is coming
- The beauty of the Great Resignation
- Heather moves on up
- Wilbur nixes the first Covid-winter warmth plan
- How DO you stay warm when all indoor spaces are Covid-closed?
- First snow
- The fall of Therese
- BONK
- Heather takes requests
- Heather draws a crowd
- Heather throws an impromptu concert
- A local zine
- Therese's Kitchen
- Disney Princess Laser Tag
- The Teacup Ride: Small Town Wisconsin version
- Bruised, slightly gross apples deserve love too
- Callback Saturday
- Ferguson's Orchard: Year One
- A mother and child reunion
- Remember when Donald Trump got Covid?
- There is a cheater among us
- Impromptu wake for Chuck's dad
- Chuck's dad passes
- Therese has nerves of STEEL
- Jogging in crocs
- A very debatable debate
- Therese and Matthew's horrible, no good, very bad week
- Trump regime blues
- Planning for a safer world
- Heather and Matthew talk shop about spirits and death
- Heather really is the best
- Staring into the Trump-Era abyss
- Online gamers among us
- Covid gets politicized
- Allies exchanging highly sensitive information
- Language exchange
- Faint pre-pandemic memories of The Grossest Water Park
- Fine dining again, FINALLY
- More reflections on the Big Smoke
- One last dad joke on the beach
- Therese: Toxic Avenger
- Final 2020 Trip to Big Falls: COLD
- The big smoke finally reaches Wisconsin
- A lazy fummer day on the East Hill
- Therese and Matthew both had epic weeks
- First Covid scare, first Covid test
- Occupado
- Shirtless Dave
- Venturing back into Racys
- Matthew pays it forward
- Wilbur and Matthew's cup-heist
- Therese gets ready to slay the dragon
- The true horror of student housing
- Return to the Murder Car!
- Belle joins the protest remotely
- When the shouting ends....
- Never forget Jacob Blake. Never forget any of them!!
- The charming stench of the Chippewa River
- A Magnolia and His Dog
- Listening to some Kinky Friedman
- Wilbur is still closed for business
- A visit to Carl and Belle's backyard
- Saying Goodbye to MortKev
- The birds, the bees, and the dragonflies
- Backstreet on the Chippewa River
- Tubing on the Chippewa River, Part 3
- Driving to Phoenix Park in my 2003 Subaru Crap-Forester
- Meeting Kev and Morty at the Hobbs boat landing to go tubing
- Caleb rules the lake
- MURDER CAR
- I am (apparently) Therese's spirit animal
- SWIMMING in a cold late summer rain
- Boating in a cold late summer rain
- Lions and tigers and wolves, minus lions and tigers
- I really do hate spiders
- Sweaty Velvet, Part 2
- Sweaty Velvet, part 1
- The Rice Lake Gorilla
- Roadkill Blues!
- Josh has counted up the cost, and he knows the sacrifice
- An awkward run
- Casper the Friendly Ghost in my cemetery??
- The central truth of pandemic safety
- Catching up with Heather
- The Big Sick
- Introducing Carl
- Aww, NUTS!
- Fear and Loathing in Forest Hill Cemetery
- Therese: Butterfly whisperer
- My superhero origin?
- Wilbur's jukebox
- Enter Wilbur and Jennie
- How does she do that??
- Fire ants at Beaver Creek Reserve
- Rock Trick!
- Morgan gets my "old man" pop culture reference
- True Facts about Beach Towels
- Therese: Horsefly slayer
- Therese gets me to take the plunge!
- Therese's devil horns show a little
- Differences in adulting
- Caleb dives into a giant blender
- Approaching the fireworks grand finale
- Fireworks!
- Therese and Caleb Reunite
- Enter Josh
- Shoo fly, shoo!
- Dodging injury at Big Falls
- Big Falls!
- Matthew imagines a zombie apocalypse in the midst of an actual apocalypse
- Lockdown 2020: Outdoor Tables at Racys
- Mooch gets a truck
- Meet Mick!
- The stroll across Eau Claire, Wisconsin's East Hill Continues
- Heather and I take a Covid-lockdown stroll on the East Hill in Eau Claire, WI
- And so, my rapid weight loss begins.
- Beaver Creek Reserve, Part 3
- Beaver Creek Reserve, Part 2
- Tubing, Part 3: The Sad, Weird End
- Tubing, Part 2: Things start to go off the rails.
- Tubing!!
- "How do we know she is a witch?"
- DON'T SHAVE YOUR HEAD!
- Heather needs some confidence
- And then, Chauvin killed George Floyd
- The Way of Clover
- Introducing George
- Caleb presages the Great Resignation
- Fitness in the Age of Covid
- That's a Mood, Second Downer Page
- That's a Mood, Page 1!
- Therese's Good Deed
- Last but not least, meet Therese
- Introducing Heather
- Introducing Caleb
- Introducing Belle
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APRIL 2021, EAU CLAIRE, WI, THE JOYNT: Apparently, no one had seen Anu in quite a while. I was the first among my circles of friends to reconnect with him. (To see what the fuss is about, go a few comic strips back.)
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