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Thursday, November 05, 2026

Second Thoughts, Part 1: What then?

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Now that I've let my inner tricoteuse out to play... ("No, no, Nanette, shush now. Oh, wait, look, you dropped a stitch. Shhhh, shh...
Wednesday, November 04, 2026

First thoughts on the Morning After

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My dear Democratic elected officials: So. Here's the thing. I - we, many, many of us who voted you in - didn't give you this power,...
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Tuesday, October 27, 2026

A Failure of Imagination

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A friend gifted me the book The Hour of Land , by Terry Tempest Williams. It's an impassioned work of unabashed love for the wild places...
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Thursday, October 08, 2026

The time that is given us...

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"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.  "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see...
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Monday, October 05, 2026

The first of the last of the Sixties

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Yesterday was the first day of my 69th trip around the sun.   At almost threescore years and ten birthdays are, well, kind of a mixed blessi...
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Wednesday, September 23, 2026

Fragment from "The Lament of the Staff Geologist", circa 2026

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At 4am the clicks and buzzes of the front door lock sound like digital complaints about an analog world. Street black ice under the sleeples...
Friday, August 21, 2026

Today in "No, duh..!"

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The Center for American Progress takes a deep dive into the crime rate stats and finds that sending a bunch of part-time GIs to amble aroun...
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I'm inquisitive and judgmental by nature, analytical by training and doggedly hard-working by necessity; husband, father, scientist, teacher, retired Army sergeant, and social liberal.
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