Category: non-fiction
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Late Night Thoughts On Milkweed Pods
[Milkweed seed pod. Photo source: Me] I’m not a collector, really. Â I do have quite a few paperclips but I wouldn’t call it a collection. Â My fondness for fountain pens and Moleskin notebooks is legendary, but I practice self-control…most of the time. Â My grandmother’s barn was filled with a mountain of old tires, but they…
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Reading Lamp
[The Ideal Reading Lamp. Â Photo source: Me.] Other than a wind storm that blew in a window in our screened-in porch, downed branches and howled like a demon on Bald Mountain, there really isn’t very much to write about these days. Â I should note that the aforementioned window has not been removed, for cleaning or…
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Adirondack Angst
[After the shovel and before the car door incident. Â Photo is mine.] Once upon a time not so very long ago, there was a man who lived in a house, with his faithful and patient wife, in the Great Wilderness known as the Adirondack Mountains. Â These mountains are located in the far reaches of upstate…
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Joshua Tree Diary: Baby Steps and First Things
[On the way to Hidden Valley] I’ve been coloring. Â We’ve been coloring. Â You know those adult coloring books that are so popular now? Â Well, I’m not a bit ashamed to say that Mariam and I have been working separate pages in a book that I bought at a 7-Eleven for $5.99+ tax. [Occupying time in…
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Joshua Tree Diary: The First Days
I looked in the mirror late this morning and decided I would need a haircut sometime in the next few weeks. Â Trouble is, we’re a few miles from the Twentynine Palms Marine Corps Base (the largest U.S. military base in the world, I’m told) and nearly all the haircut places offer a “military cut”. Â Well,…
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On Front Street At The End Of October
Different times…different places…different memories… [Photo source: Google search.] I should mention that, as a child, one of my favorite things to do this time of year was to kick a pile of leaves along a stone sidewalk. It’s gloomy, rainy and windy here in the North Country. Â It rained hard before dawn this morning so…
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Dead Man’s Bone
[Source: Google search] This is not about a toothache as the photo suggests. Â It’s about me walking around with 0.5 cc of granules of a dead persons bone in my gums (ignore the gender reference in the title. Â It’s purely for dramatic effect. Â I thought it sounded spooky). Â For the next several months, my body…
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D’Arcy At The Bat
A bat. [Source: Wikipedia] bat n : any of an order of night-flying mammals with forelimbs modified to form wings. [Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary] I considered naming this post “Listen to them…they are the children of the night. What beautiful music they make” but I decided: a) it was too long for a title, and, b) the…
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Six Days Can Be A Long Time
[Photo credit: Mel Brown] The moment happened a few hours ago. Â I was probably sitting in Starbucks on Broadway and 75th Street when the time came and went. Â I was aware of the time, but I was likely checking my email. Â Our apartment wifi was dead for the time being. It was an arbitrary time,…
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May Day, 2017: Take the Long Way Home
[Photo source: Me] So, here I am looking at the new page of my really cool calendar. Â It’s May. Â Most people will think of flowers and perhaps rising waters. Â I used to think of crocus. Â That’s when my mother always said spring was here. “The crocus are up beneath the evergreens,” she would say….for so…
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