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Agrivation
Posted on March 9, 2014 21 Comments
I have been working all week on an intense project and ideas for this particular topic have been swirling through my head. Sometimes they gel into a cogent statement, buttressed by facts from all the sources that spin past me each day and at other times, they just drop into the pool of ideas that […]
The Haunt of Red October
Posted on October 7, 2013 33 Comments
It’s finally October, a time of year most of us in the Northern Hemisphere look forward to for its cool, crisp fall days, the turning leaves, familiar signs of harvest. I do too. But for us here in our Southern California idyll, October comes with trepidation. This week it has been as hot here as […]
Babes ‘n’ arms
Posted on October 1, 2013 6 Comments
The New York Times now has a running series of articles as a category, focusing on guns and the NRA. I happened to notice two of them this week that are particularly concerning and both have to do with the fact that children are being targeted for gun sales and are also killing each other […]
Ant-i-mimetic
Posted on September 15, 2013 10 Comments
It’s that special time of the year again here. Unlike some parts of this country, we are still deep in the heat of summer. It has been in the high 90’s (F) for the past few weeks, relentlessly. And with dry summer heat in good ole SoCal, comes: ants. We are being swarmed. First we […]
Rapt attention and the law of unintended consequences
Posted on August 4, 2013 4 Comments
As I have already mentioned, I am transplanted from the East Coast. As such, I was used to a lot of greenery and wildlife around me. Growing up in New York and New Jersey, we had miles and miles of solid trees of every kind and all the yard animals that go along with it, […]
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