The lake of my youth throws up a breathless display in the Land of the Cousins, as the fate of the country hangs in the balance in a few weeks. Welcome to The Great Mystery ...
Read More In which our interlocutor works himself out of a pre-dawn funk by fashioning an illustrated poem; seeks advice a few centuries old; re-directs attention to an Appalachian catastrophe; snaps a feather and a fog. And also offers up for your 60-second inspection an election video which, really, deserves more than an audience of zero.
Read More In my woodland wanderings, I encounter the tall tapestries of slim communications towers. These elongated lattices of metalwork are striking up close. From their brawny ground level struts, the eye tracks the tower to the heavens, like an arrow shot at a cloud. How to capture their odd grandeur?
Read More The ocean is never still, so coming into its presence is an auditory encounter, as well as a vast visual one. Late one recent night, I rested in its grace, the tide's whoosh and companionable whitecaps a soundscape, a meditation, and escape from the onslaught of the breaking news.
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Vote against retribution, self-centered cruelty, and the meanest aspects of our worst natures on Nov. 5. Here are some sample videos from my hypershort election series 'NotesBeforeYouVote.com'
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Are we headed 'Hellward' or do watermelon-loving turtles show a better way. Plus, my new band plays one of the saddest songs ever written.
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Looking back on 'When Earl Went to War,' plus glimpses of some birds, butterflies, bees, and an old song by a new band
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Standing near a fallen oak tree in the middle dark — is it 1, 2 or 3 a.m.? — all I hear besides myself is wind whooshing through millions of leaves, an intermittent chorus of whistling tree frogs, and the eternal hoot of a night owl on the hunt. I am very much in need of a night of woodland…
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The Jonas Brothers have been stars for awhile. Their music and drama have been the soundtrack to my daughter's life. She just turned 30. So, how could I resist an offer to go to a JoBros show together and witness the ardour of it all?
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Earl Goodall, my neighbor, friend, and an amiable human being, passed on at age 93 on July 5, 2024. Earl was the subject of my 2021 16-minute documentary, "When Earl Went to War", about his Korean War service, while also portraying the man's sweet, down-home character. Here's a look back at the kind of guy who never gets lifted up…
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While the country careens towards an election that will determine everything, your webguy takes a mental health break to look at Fourth of July fireworks as an art form.
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I have found a turtle in the tall grass in the back yard, lounging beneath a stately weeping willow. It is a box turtle, with odd orange and brown hieroglyphs adorning its shell. I have never seen one in the flesh, much less held one, although I have seen drawings in the dictionary. Captivated by the enigmatic artwork on the…
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Between fretting about the cat peeing outside her litter box and fearing a Reign of Retribution if Donald the Dark Heart returns to the White Throne, I try to keep up with long-simmering, perhaps too ambitious, projects like my sprawling, speculative fiction, multimedia space opera. An update!
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The road goes ever, ever on, even as / we trek, head downward before the dusk, / following the tips of our black shoes. / Wondering who did this to us or that / to us. And how did I get here?!? / And where, O where, will I wash up next …
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As we move toward an election in November that could ring down the curtain on the American experiment — not a republic, not a monarchy, how about an autocracy overseen by a malignant narcissist? — I find myself needing to knit to calm my nerves.
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