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We've been awaiting (or dreading) their arrival, and now they are finally here.  I'm not talking about the Kardashian babies - no, ...

Coming Down From the Mountain

October 29th, 2009

After days and nights of it, the laughter of the children echoing up from the foothills below began to grit on him, ...

The Song of Liberty’s Muse

October 28th, 2009

It was a cool morning on board the U. S. S. Madonna, the quiet of the day broken by the revving tug ...

A Sea Story

October 27th, 2009

It was a confluence of sensation.  It began with my feet: a gut-wrenching downward movement of the submarine, and a guttural, rumbling ...

A Stubborn American Icon

October 26th, 2009

What is a Mule? Today is National Mule Day, a day to celebrate an animal that science says should never have happened.  Mules ...

A Welcoming Nature

October 23rd, 2009

Each year, my family and I have made it a point to return to Sequoia National Forest, to settle in for as ...

What Are You, Nuts?

October 22nd, 2009

In the Olduvai Gorge of Africa over 1,000,000 years ago, they enjoyed them, placing them on top of rocks and gingerly tapping them, ...

A Return to True Beauty

October 20th, 2009

In thousands of beauty pageants across America, she stands there, an aura around her as she tries with all of her might ...

Looking in the Dark Places

October 19th, 2009

“The great thing is, if one can, to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions in one's "own" or "real" life. ...
“Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ...