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Me!!! What a surreal thing to do. But, actually, fascinating. Here’s the thing. I don’t want to leave behind a mess. I know too many people who, for…
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When he lay dying, I flew from New York to Virginia Beach, Virginia, where he lived. I needed to tell him something. He was my uncle, my father’s older…
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"Mothers are all slightly insane," Holden Caulfield says at one point in The Catcher in the Rye. I always knew what he meant. It was never a quote that…
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The veiled lady and the bird man
One mid-February day in 1821, John James Audubon was walking down Royal Street in New Orleans’ French Quarter. Audubon had been in New Orleans for about…
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Donkey!
There was a donkey born this last fall near us. He’s grown since then, of course. He’s now in that sweetness-to-die-for stage. He’s still smaller than…
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The moon is ours
Like any place we humans visit, it will eventually become violated. If it hasn’t been already. Think all we’ve left on the moon’s surface are an absurd…
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Living together less than nine months, and now this...
Well, here I am. This, I never could have imagined. Living with her, Gaywynn. You know how they say that life is full of surprises. That life is…
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Rain, the sublime
It’s raining here in rural Louisiana. It rained all night and is still raining now at 7:50am. It often rains hard and long in this part of the world…
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My lack of understanding of women
I’m not sure boarding school is totally responsible for my lack of understanding of women. I think there’s some natural ability at work here. I have…
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