
This isn’t one of my photos. It’s a lovely Creative Commons photo by Dennis Behm. There won’t be many more of mine until I can afford to replace the Canon’s dying battery, which may be some time. Thank you, o stalwart battery. Your lithium ions
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My friend Susan posted a photo on Facebook this week of herself planting a tree in her Minnesota town, part of a campaign to plant a thousand of them. It’s a sweet photo. She squats at the base of the tree, one begloved hand on the ground as if to
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I got some hate mail today in response to an article I wrote seven years ago.
I have to admit that I was picking a fight with that article, so I deserve every bit of the hate mail I’ve received in response, then and now: every capital letter of
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I taught myself to read pretty early in life, age three or thereabouts. My memories of the time before that are unreliable, mainly remanufactured from stories I’d heard told about those days, with a layer of remembered visual image plastered atop
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