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Bugs, invading plants, and the trouble with LUST

May 29, 2009

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I tell you, there is no end to the misadventures that are possible. We are in the midst of the annual Flight of the Miserable Little Black Helicopters. I do not know what they are, but I’d be glad to have a name to pin to them, so that I could curse them by it. […]

What a mess. What a beautiful mess.

April 14, 2009

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Miss Sadie, the Cowboy and I were multi-tasking over in Central Lake. While the laundry was sloshing around at the Wash Tub we had a little constitutional and took some snapshots of the former Lamplight Inn. What a mess. An overflowing dumpster here, a flapping blue tarp there, a parking lot full of trucks, a […]

Scrubbing our pretty face before The Season

March 28, 2009

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I’m on a mission. Poor little Eastport, while admittedly not the most photogenic part of the Township, comes off very badly on Google’s mapping “street view.” Take a look at the intersection of US 31 and M 88. This is the image that greets visitors all over the world if they search Google Maps for […]

200 years later and still a hero

February 10, 2009

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Another birthday for Mr. Lincoln Thursday, February 12 will be the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln’s birth, and I plan to celebrate. With the exception of Bonnie the Beloved of Bob, he is my favorite Republican. The deeper historians dig into his character, the more substance they find. Not that he didn’t make mistakes, or have his […]

Great day in the morning

January 20, 2009

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This has been such a beautiful day.  My heart is full.  It keeps leaking out my eyes.  When I try to write about what I feel . . .  maybe later.  I keep thinking that the most wonderful thing about this moment in history is how normal it is.  I’m going to walk Miss Sadie and the Cowboy, […]

Post-election tidying up

November 7, 2008

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This morning I took down the Torch Lake Views Endorsements widget and vacuumed up the confetti at the Writing Studio and Bait Shop.  I’m filled with joy and hope for the coming Obama Presidency.  We’re launched on a great adventure together.  Like most adventures worth having, it will be filled with challenges.  I think the American […]

Freedom: Verse I

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

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