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Æstivation
I wish I were a Malagasy fat-tailed dwarf lemur.
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If My Cold Were an Old Man
I wished he would just go away and leave me alone.
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Impressions of Tucson, Arizona
Where else can you say you’ve walked through a rattlesnake?
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The Sonoran Desert: Here There Be Thorns
Ah, but it’s a dry heat.
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The Curse of Summer Vacations
The reality of summer never fit with my fantasies.
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Nature’s Personality
When I lived in Florida, I avoided nature at all costs. For me it was a place of spiders and snakes and mosquitoes and lightning strikes and fire ants and tornadoes and floods and, increasingly, forest fires. You couldn’t even jump into a pile of leaves for the scorpions. (How does one get through childhood…
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My Late Night Symphony
Have you ever been so tired that it felt like your mattress was hugging you? You sink into it’s soft embrace and feel a sweet relief like no other. It makes you wonder why you ever resisted bedtime as a child. This night was one of those nights. It had been a long day at…
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Hot Pavement and Dogs
At the time I wrote this it was 90 degrees in downtown Seattle. One of my tasks at work when it gets this hot is to measure the bridge gaps to make sure the metal hasn’t expanded so much in the heat that the bridge gets damaged by me trying to open it. So, I’m…
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Just Trying to Stay Warm
As I write this, I’m huddled over the space heater at work. The very marrow of my bones feels like it’s frozen solid. Will I ever be warm again? At home I keep the thermostat in most of the house at 55 degrees, the bedroom at 60. Otherwise the electric bill would give me chilblains.…