Speaking of journeys…

March 10, 2008

Filed in: The Home Front, The Middle Ages

What, you’re kicking around the Internets reading this and that when you should be working? If so, head over to Brain,Child, where, among a lot of awfully good writing, Jen and Steph were peachy enough to post my essay about a long, long bus ride I took with C.

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Politicians, 1 Polar Bears, 0

March 09, 2008

Filed in: Alaska, The Way We Live Now

Here’s a nice headline . . .

Alaska politicians oppose plan to protect polar bears

My head has been all up in Alaska these past weeks. You start to nose around here and there online, looking at this or that lodge or guided tour or whatever, you send out a few tentative e-mail queries, and...

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Two Questions

February 28, 2008

Filed in: The Home Front, The Middle Ages, The Way We Live Now

1) Chowing down on Mexy food with Beulah last weekend, this came up: “What is the most valuable thing in your house?”

We’re not talking 401K or your car or the various bits of trophy jewelry on your bod. We’re talking in your house. And we’re talking cash value, not sentimental: what did you...

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Coincidences 1 & 2

February 18, 2008

Filed in: Alaska, Hawaii, North Dakota, The Home Front

* How cool is this? The superfabulous Peabody Essex Museum, which I have written about elsewhere, is sponsoring a talk on “Keeping the fire in the dark moon times.” Guess which three dark-moon states, out of the 50, they’ve chosen to highlight? Massachusetts. Alaska. Hawaii. My states, all. 

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Irregularities

February 05, 2008

Filed in: The Home Front, The Way We Live Now

Swellville is one of only four towns in our entire crazy-liberal state that consistently votes Republican (gotta to protect those capital gains, don’t you know).

The first time T and I voted here we were a little taken aback by the setup. The polling place (really it’s the elementary school...

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