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{ Daily Archives } Monday, June 2007

The Difference

[I added the material at the end of this post at 1:49 p.m. the same day I posted it.]
I’ll admit it, I’m a fan of the Democratic Party — but more for what it isn’t than for what it is. Here’s an example of what it isn’t: a hand-puppet for big business.
Several Democratic and Republican [...]

Bird Camp Dispatch 5

Bird Camp went on one of its periodic breaks (every nine days? eleven? can’t remember) last week, in which the crew decamps for two nights in Flagstaff: motel showers, restaurant dinners, check the email and otherwise get back on the grid for a while. A. stayed in camp with one of the grad students for [...]

Sunday

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It finally feels as if the process of moving has begun, even though we won’t be vacating the house until early August. But, as of Sunday evening, there are half-full boxes cropping up in this or that corner of the house: books I’m weeding out to try to sell to Normal’s, clothes I emptied from [...]