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  • Yesterday I drove on the freeway to give my final exam, passing the rotting hulks of cars abandoned beside the road --Possibly they were not rotting hulks, but there were three cars abandoned by the side of the road. The…

  • See those buds? Spring will be here when it gets darn good and ready.This picture is from yesterday's walk. Other things I did yesterday included trolling for links, reading and listening about racism in 18th century mi…

  • We had a great weekend in The Big City, my daughters and I. First of course we had to get there. I did not have to do any of the driving, so it wasn't that bad, but it was bad enough that I thought, during the weekend, …

  • I completely forgot to wear the black T-shirt with pink rhinestones last night. This may be just as well. As I drove past signs saying "Beware of the dog," "KEEP OUT," and "Trespassers Will Be Prosecuted," I might have f…

  • Blessing was helping me move furniture around yesterday at work when I got a call from an old friend. She was getting up a party to go to a play at the University -- would I like to come? I accepted happily and returned…

  • For the end of the story -- #2 daughter was unemployed for one week, almost to the hour. Actually she was offered a temporary job just about 7 hours after first becoming unemployed, so she wasn't exactly unemployed, but …

  • By the time I got down to the Farmers Market yesterday, it was already in the 90s. I bought half a peck of peaches first, and trundled around the square carrying them, adding bitter melon, cucumber, and green beans. The …

  • This spring, I have driven to and from Kansas City seven times. Every time, I follow the advice of my agoraphobia book and pay close attention to all the scary parts, and notice how the majority of the experience is not …

  • I was doing my errands yesterday, and thinking about the flat world. I went to the farmers' market, where I talk to my friends, buy flowers from people I go to church with and snow peas from people who buy books from me,…

  • Dawkins, in The Ancestor's Tale, has been going on about birds and fishes and amphibians, so I have not been as fascinated as usual. I just don't find those creatures as interesting as mammals. I think we may get to inse…

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