Archive for December, 2011

How the New Year Might Look

Winter                                           First Moon of the New Year At an inflection point with the Latin.  Either I keep the pace I currently follow, maybe 6 hours a week; or, I ramp up, say to 10 […]

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Wolf Travels Alone

Winter?                                  First Moon of the New Year Lone wolf crosses into California from Oregon This head line, reassuring and hopeful as it is, still seems sad.  An animal, an apex predator, that used to roam freely throughout the West […]

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Ovid. Again.

Winter                              First Moon of the New Year An Ovidian morning.  Holding words, conjugations, meanings, clause types, prepositions and adverbs in the head while whirling them around like a Waring blender.  It’s satisfying when a sentence finally pops up, like a good […]

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Get Ready

Winter                                         First Moon of the New Year A new year awaits us.  January 1st.  Between now and then there will be many bytes spilled over resolutions, revelations and revolutions.  Last year we had revolutions, the […]

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Conviction

Winter                              First Moon of the New Year Kenny Waters Incident Date: 5/21/80 Jurisdiction: MA Charge: Murder, Robbery Conviction: Murder, Robbery Sentence: Life Year of Conviction: 1983 Exoneration Date: 6/19/01 Sentence Served: 18 Years Real perpetrator found? Not Yet Contributing Causes:Informants Compensation? Yes Just watched Conviction, the Hilary Swank movie about Kenny […]

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Santa Marta and the San Blas Islands

Winter                                    First Moon of the New Year If you’re interested, our first two stops on our cruise Santa Marta, Colombia and the San Blas Islands off Panama, now have a few images up on the tumblr site.  Again, […]

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Ancient of Trails

Winter                                      First Moon of the New Year The Tumblr site is up, though it has very few postings right now.  That will change over the next few weeks and the initial postings may change, too, as I use […]

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Boxing Day

Winter                                           Moon of the New Year So, Boxing Day has arrived.  Like most Americans Boxing Day has always puzzled me.  My image of it, for a very long time, was of proper British folk […]

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Walked Along the Boundaries

Winter                                           New Moon of the New Year A librarian in Eagan, part of the metro area here, has an interesting project underway.  Do your memoir in six words. Gonna give it a try:   […]

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System D Economics

Winter                                  Moon of the Winter Solstice (San Blas woman selling mola’s in Panama City colonial district. cbe) System D economics.  Never heard of it?  Read Wired magazine’s print edition this month. System D economics, named by an economist who studies system […]

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