Monthly Archives: May 2010

Nothing

This day came sooner than expected. Either I have nothing or I’m plum tuckered out.  Now, if this were you and you were plum tuckered out, what exactly do you think that would look like?  I’m imagining a plum, tuckered out, is sort of a prune but it could be something else.  It could...

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Follow the money

Here’s the deal.  I’m trying to be positive and hopeful for the wetlands, the life and all the people and systems in place that make the Louisiana Gulf Coast so beautiful.  I know that lives will be changed there for a long time. Livelihoods lost. I’m hoping new ones are found.  The wetlands, now...

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Cheddar and apples

Why are Stayman Winesaps all around in the markets at this time of year?  Are they now shipping apples from Chile as well?  If they are, at least a well known New York apple from another country still goes well with cheddar cheese. If you can’t tell, I’m completely avoiding the concern over the...

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Used bookstores

If you’re ever in the mood to drop time in a well and head out on an adventure  try going to a used bookstore.  I’m sort of this way and that about the books, but the houses that hold them, some  musty older homes with sagging front porches and creaking stairs to the hotter...

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Silent spring

I will ask for forgiveness now.  Do my mea culpas and move on to a few topics, then braid them, and leave the area before anyone knows it was me. First, everyone should thank Rachel Carson for whatever part of her soul journey that decided to bring her to our planet.  Her book Silent...

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