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‘Q: I am used to reading older texts that use “my” before consonants (“my love”) and “mine” before vowels (“mine eyes”). But once in a while I see them used the same way. In the King James Version, Psalm 119 has “my affliction” (verse...
An hour past sunrise, a gnatcatcher picks off the few survivors of a tent caterpillar colony in a black cherry at the woods’ edge. A hummingbird circles my red bandanna.
I wanted to go back to the very beginning of blogging, where someone’s blog could consist of just a simple html page with maybe some images to go along with it. But I also wanted to have an easy way to update it. I’ve succeeded in doing...
the gradual or rapid movement of politically acceptable ideas
Note: May 18th is a big day both in music history and for anyone who lived in the PNW in 1980. I first ran this piece when there were about 6 of us here (and 3 of them lived with me), and it’s become an annual tradition. We don’t have...
The 270-foot Famous (Bear) class USCGC Tahoma (WMEC-908) recently stumbled upon three smuggler vessels off the coast of Colombia, and bagged same. From PAO: Coast Guard Cutter Tahoma’s crew simultaneously interdicted three suspected...
NOAA’s Office of Coast Survey (OCS) is currently utilizing fully uncrewed contract USVs for an offshore hydrographic survey mission along the Florida Gulf Coast. Operated by Woolpert, the mission is being conducted by Chance Maritime’s...
USS Gerald R. Ford and her two companion destroyers, USS Bainbridge (DDG 96) and USS Mahan (DDG 72), left port on 24 June 2025 for six months of scheduled deployment and exercises. They arrived back home last week, some 322 days later....
2026 is another year of short stories. In this weekly series, I track my short story writing, from idea and draft to submission. This is the weeks of May 4 – 17. Stats Submissions and Responses In the past two weeks I had a single...
Kick plates are supposed to protect your door’s paint job from getting…well…kicked. That sticking door that needs an extra nudge to open or the challenge of opening a door with your hand filled with Stanley cups makes the kick plate...
Time to get into functions, which ends up mostly being about the weather. Shock.
Call me Ishmael. Some years ago – never mind how long precisely – having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a...