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The Senate Picks Up Some Chicks, Democrats
While the Republicans spend the next year or so trying to determine the paternity of an orphan known as the 2012 Republican Electoral Campaign, let’s take a minute to remember the many important… more →
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Fracking Has Caused Earthquakes
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wrote 2 days ago: A drilling rig- courtesy of LiveScience.com See original article by Charles Choi at LiveScience.com … more →
Homesick
wrote 2 weeks ago: Some things you can’t go back to, some things need left alone Don’t mess with a memories of a life p … more →
ISBN 0-394-51602-8
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wrote 2 weeks ago: Collected Stories Frank O’Connor I only read nineteen pages of Collected Stories Frank … more →
My Autobiography
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wrote 2 weeks ago: Table of Contents Farms in Queens German Ghetto St. Thomas the Apostle Parish Dominican Nuns The Ban … more →
Screaming at Imaginary People
wrote 4 weeks ago: “My American Unhappiness” is an odd novel. It’s not the next great American novel, … more →
Neighborhood parents are back
wrote 1 month ago: The sandhill crane pair are back in my neighborhood again this year on the west side of Madison and … more →
Party on the Platte- The amazing sandhill crane migration at Rowe Sanctuary
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wrote 1 month ago: The sandhill crane migration at Rowe Sanctuary near Kearney, Nebraska is indescribable. The sight of … more →
Urban Oasis: Visiting Chicago's Garfield Park Conservatory
wrote 1 month ago: It’s late winter. I’m surrounded by palm trees. Sweat beads are forming on my brow. … more →
Short Re-Branding Poem
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wrote 2 months ago: maybe i should buy a colt pistol & infiltrate the underworld or maybe i sho … more →
The Flying Nun
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wrote 2 months ago: “Nilah. We’re going to be late!” It was a refrain we heard over and over again. Dad was punctual … more →
In the Halls of the Sun Gods
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The Burger Stand
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wrote 2 months ago: A few weeks ago, I finally had a chance to eat at The Burger Stand in Lawrence, Kansas! My friend An … more →
In Memory Of...
wrote 2 months ago: One day, at the end of January, we had this insanely thick fog, all day. It was pretty amazing, and … more →
When the Levees Broke...
wrote 2 months ago: On our way down to Missouri, we had to go through Iowa. While she was driving, I spotted a nice old … more →
Looking to the Future!
wrote 2 months ago: I am always intending to start a photography blog… To share my adventures, experiences, and o … more →
Him got thuh sand on he brain, mon.
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wrote 3 months ago: Controversy-shmontroversy. Seriously people. Turn da frown, de udduh way aroun’. This was my a … more →
February's Fading Light
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Eagle Spotting
wrote 3 months ago: It was a blustery bitter final day of January in the Midwest. I was watching the snowy gusts swirli … more →
A Winter's Walk
wrote 3 months ago: Whose woods these are, I think I know…. … more →
