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MORE SENSE OF PLACE, mostly in books
I know I promised to suggest more book titles with a sense of coastal Maine, and I will, but who could pass up a teaser headline like this one: Hip-Hop … Continue reading
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Notes from the maybe almost post-pandemic
It’s been a week of provocations, but then most weeks are. Donald Rumsfeld died, which is not an entirely unexpected or unpleasant thing. But reading his obituary reminded me of something he did that was both memorable and silly, instead … Continue reading
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COVID TIDIINGS, CONT’D
SEATTLE HAD SNOW, 6 inches of snow. That was Saturday and Sunday. Charlie and I frolicked in the snow. See picture below. Today is Tuesday. SEATTLE HAS SLUSH and, maybe 50 degrees. Pray for a drying wind. But snow is … Continue reading
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GOOD TIDINGS AND ADAPTING
Thank heavens! It’s a New Year and a a new beginning. Here’s to all the good that portends. Good news is we’ve made it this far. We just need to get through the next two weeks of muzzling … Continue reading
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COVID 19 NOTES,3
JUST IN: A COVID-maybe worker lurks and we are confined…again. The COVID comes, the COVID goes … up and down, but never away. Sigh. Life is Groundhog Day, temporarily sheltering (now,even more)-in-place Thank heavens … Continue reading
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COVID19 NOTES 2, PLUS
AVOIDING THE VIRAL CONTAGION LIFESTYLE NOTES: We of the poetry group met monthly to have fun with favorite poems. My choices always seemed to be better with a change or two. For instance, Emily Dickinson’s poem “To Make a Prairie” … Continue reading
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RECOMMEND: YES OR NO?
C. J. Box had me at the first bike ride through North Dakota’s icy, rutted, snow-covered fields at dawn. And at the cold, the really, really cold. And with the kid on his bike in the cold, witnessing a car … Continue reading
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THERE IN SPIRIT, EXPECTING ESP
August is here and I am not there and what is a willing, but unable, body to do? Rant maybe, but that’s no fun alone. So I have taken to watching the Scandinavian mysteries with subtitles on MHZ, mostly for … Continue reading
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SNOWY DAYS, CONTINUING
Snow here today; snow there tomorrow. Curses. And time for more bookish suggestions from and for snowy day frolickers. BE A BOOK VOYEUR: LOOK AT WHAT OTHERS ARE READING Checking out what others are reading is always fun, but it’s … Continue reading
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HARBOR WATCH IS BETTER WITH MORE WATCHERS
The wind blows and blows and blows, and it’s not just Arthur, but I don’t know what it is. The water ripples and glistens, the days stay cool enough to mow the lawn with only one beer break, and the … Continue reading
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