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William Gass born 102 years ago today This is the traditional William Gass birthday post: from The Tunnel: The other large carton unpacked in the same way - box into box - but the feeling it gave me was the opposite of that suggested by...
Health and safety reps have had legal standing since 1977. Equality reps get theirs this October. Green reps have nothing, and a net zero target with no plan behind it is just a press release.
Miles Tone sat on the edge of the examination table, clutching his lower right abdomen, while the ER doctor explained that his appendix was dangerously inflamed and required immediate removal.“Okay, I hear you,” Tone said, pulling out...
That’s Max Hubacher’s title for this April 13, 1953 photo: Some mildly conclusive sleuthing: most of the visible company names aren’t rare enough to make searching for business addresses from 70 years ago very easy. The best bet is the...
Me and my Nozbe team all work from our homes. We’re a completely remote company. I’ve been tweaking my home office almost every year since 2008 and documenting it on my blog. Today I’m letting the AI co hosts to analyze the top 10...
I saw the live capture of "Hadestown: The Musical" Sunday during what was initially going to be a 5 day run in theaters. It has now been extended. Since I reviewed the live show, I'm just going to make a list of things I like and didn't...
An Approach to a Good LifeAfter going up and down the roller coaster of drinking from college through one's twenties I am done. I've seen how it affects myself, those around me, and even loved one's who have a few too many. I am going to...
The name Oak Processionary moth has an almost whimsical ring to it, conjuring up an image of tiny insects dutifully marching through the woods in orderly file. The reality is rather less charming. Native to central and southern Europe,...
Others, like this one, last long enough for me to write them down.
This is a big photography book. It collects the pictures Walbers took during several trips to Mongolia in 2014-2018, focusing on the nomad population. There are only a few pages of bilingual text (English and Japanese) that offer some...
The rugged shore and sea stacks at Cape Meares, Oregon. The post Off the Coast appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.
Clear, cool, and breezy—a week to the day after our last dry high. Six crows sit on dead branches atop the two tallest locust trees in the yard. One minute past sunrise, they look all around, shift on their perches, and take flight.
I am now in the 8th day post my chemo cocktail. Still waiting for even a hint of the side effects the nurse told me about. Other than a twinge of nausea on day 2 and 3, nada. She said I would lose my taste for foods I liked, I would be...
A great TDC today – to write or change a poem so it contains instructions about how to do it. I don’t think I quite did that, but I had a lot of fun changing the words to Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnet 43. Here it is: How Do I Love...
I had planned to make a mix a month for all of 2026, but nobody seemed to listen to the mix for last May, so I fell off on that. Some projects get left by the wayside.