Wanted to Rent

By Jim Hagarty
2016

Wanted to Rent:
One used doghouse. Length, six feet or longer. Width, three feet. Height, unimportant. Suitable for housing one being, ideally, or one larger and one smaller beings. For use in various circumstances including, but not restricted to, the correction of a failure to remember a wedding anniversary. Duration needed: To be determined, 30 days minimum. Please forward estimated fee. Will pay extra for food services.

Author: Jim Hagarty

I am a 72-year-old retired journalist, busy recovering from a lifelong career as an unretired journalist. This year marks a half century of my scratching out little fables about life. My interests include genealogy, humour and music. I live in a little blue shack in Canada and spend most of my time trying to stay out of trouble. I am not that good at it. I also spent years teaching journalism. Poor state of journalism today: My fault. I have a family I don't deserve, a dog that adores me, and two cars the junk yard refuses to accept. My prized possessions include my old guitar and a razor my Dad gave me when I was 14 and which I still use when I bother to shave. Oh, and my great-great-grandfather's blackthorn stick he brought from Ireland in the 1850s. I have only one opinion but it is a good one: People take too many showers.