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An age of daily miracles
Around this time of year, I start getting up when it’s still dark. The window with my desktop looks east, so I’ve been greeted by the bright voices of Venus and Mars.But this morning as I walked out...
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Recovery
I spent yesterday in recovery, as much of the country did. Watching the television Tuesday night felt like watching the plane go into the towers on 9/11: shock and disbelief and a terrible knowledge...
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What’s this stuff falling from the sky?
It is raining in California. Raining, pouring, pelting, pissing down in a way it hasn’t for years. Hillsides slump, culverts fountain, trees collapse. Feet mildew and children climb the walls. The cell...
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MADness and Melania
As I’ve mentioned before, Island of the Mad, though originally intended as an escape from the events of 2017, has become all too relevant to daily life. Take the recent fashion choice of our First Lady...
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100 years ago, the Great War was in its dying week. Wilfred Owen was killed on the 4thof November. All the commanders-in-chief agreed the war was over–but on the ground, the struggle went on, and on....
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Heaven is dry stockings
Commemorating the end of the Great War, 100 years ago this weekend. From Justice Hall The War journal of Lt. Gabriel Hughenfort 28 January Never have I imagined cold such as this. Even the frost-rimed...
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Eleventh Hour, Eleventh Day
[For information on the US giveaway of Justice Hall, scroll down to the bottom of this post.] 100 years ago today, one minute before the 11/11/11:00 Armistice officially began, American Henry Gunther...
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Name a Character!
Sheltering in place is hard. Doing so when you can barely afford that shelter in the first place can be impossible. Second Harvest is stepping up with drive-by food giveaways serving hundreds of...
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Russell’s Nurse Friend
One of the people I follow on Facebook is a long-time admirer of the Mary Russell stories who came into the fold when she was younger than Russell is in Beekeeper. She did some of the illustrations...
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Fired up, thanks.
You may have heard that we have a fire going on here in Santa Cruz. Flames coming at us… Fires are, unfortunately, not unusual in California—generally in October, when the dry season is dragging on....
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