Author Archives: donofalltrades

An open letter to the jane q. public i wrote those tickets to…

Dear Jane Q. Public: I recently became aware that you took a few minutes out of your life to send an online complaint to my Department’s Internal Affairs Division because you were upset that I would not listen to your … Continue reading

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Tear free soccer? Let’s hope so…

Several moons ago I coached Ace’s soccer team.  I played soccer my entire life and even enjoyed a soccer scholarship in college, so it was my hope that Ace would enjoy playing it as much as I did. This was … Continue reading

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How ‘you people’ caused me to incite a mini race riot…

My first regular patrol partner and I both joined the police department at about the same time. When we started, we were both green and inexperienced, but, out of necessity, we rode together a lot.  Ideally, very new officers would … Continue reading

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Just writing SOMETHING, oh, and maybe run another 1/2 marathon.

For the love of fuck, I just can’t seem to jump start my brain into conjuring up anything funny, creative, meaningful, stupid, or even mediocre, to write lately. I’ve scrapped numerous shitty blog posts that I’d started because if the … Continue reading

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Cujo

Hey Blogdramedy, I obviously missed the boat on playing this time around, but I wanted to ask you if this sort of post would have been ok.  Could you have tolerated 10 days of woofing from 10 different dogs? ————————————————————————————- … Continue reading

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Daily Prompt: State of Year Address

Whispers and shhhh’s echo in the room… “Shhhh, he’s coming into the room!  The big guy is going to speak to us!” Papers shuffle, throats are cleared and finally, there is silence. DOAT enters the room to thunderous applause as … Continue reading

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Family vacation…it sure beats working?

I checked out this donofalltrades.com site and noticed that a post hadn’t been added since July 11th, and that post was a Daily Prompt number.  July 10th was the last unprompted post on the blog, and that was to shout … Continue reading

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Daily Prompt, Fandom: St. Louis Cardinals

Daily Prompt: Fandom by michelle w. on July 11, 2013 Are you a sports fan? Tell us about fandom. If you’re not, tell us why not. ————————————————————————————– I am a fan of sports. True fandom doesn’t come from buying a jersey … Continue reading

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100 posts ‘n stuff…

Since I don’t believe that yesterday’s reblogging of Ace’s awesome photo counts as a post, this one here is numero 100. 100 posts. Wow! Many of my posts are of the long variety, generally 1000 words at least.  I apologize … Continue reading

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Happy Beerthday, Papa!

Originally posted on Stuff Kids Write:
Don’s 5-year-old daughter made this birthday card for her papa. It really captures everything a papa could hope for on his birthday. Family? Check. Bar? Check. Laughter? Check. Hamburger? Check. Attentive wait staff? Check.…

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