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The River's Edge: January 2010
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Reflections on Life and Nature. Saturday, January 30, 2010. Going Out with a Bang. My wife and kids are lucky:. When I die, I just want to be cremated. Forget mouldering away in a pool of chemicals under a patch of Kentucky Blue grass. I know, I know:. Different strokes for different folks, but cremation alone seems downright boring when compared to the guy I heard about today on the radio. Now that’s going out with a bang. Monday, January 25, 2010. Wild birds crowded the front yard this morning:. Fortun...
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The River's Edge: July 2015
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Reflections on Life and Nature. Thursday, July 2, 2015. Leaving the Nest - A Father's Reflections. The papers go in, and an anxious three or four weeks commence where their future hangs in the balance. They could serve anywhere—literally—from Moscow, Idaho, to Moscow, Russia, and everywhere in between. Hong Kong, the Philippines, Australia, Japan, Argentina, Brazil, Germany. That litany represents the places where just my immediate family has served. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile.
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The River's Edge: June 2009
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Reflections on Life and Nature. Thursday, June 25, 2009. Do your kids like video games, but they drive you crazy? Check out Orisinal, a series of cute and inventive games by Ferry Halim. Here's the link: http:/ www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/. Try the lady bug game. It's mildly. My brother, Pete, a graphic designer, turned us on to her site year's ago. Even the music's mellow and kind of catchy. My kids love it, particularly the younger set, and it's nice to see someone's creativity in full flower. Somethin...
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The River's Edge: August 2009
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Reflections on Life and Nature. Thursday, August 6, 2009. So, my experiment in heirloom tomatoes is about half-way through, and I've learned a few things. First, most indeterminate tomato plants really do need 36" between plants. I have too many mature plants in too small of a space. But that's just a side show, the real question is: which tomatoes are worth planting again next year? And the mid-season award for best all round tomato goes to . drumroll please . a beefsteak tomato called Cherokee ...Subsc...
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The River's Edge: Leaving the Nest - A Father's Reflections
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Reflections on Life and Nature. Thursday, July 2, 2015. Leaving the Nest - A Father's Reflections. The papers go in, and an anxious three or four weeks commence where their future hangs in the balance. They could serve anywhere—literally—from Moscow, Idaho, to Moscow, Russia, and everywhere in between. Hong Kong, the Philippines, Australia, Japan, Argentina, Brazil, Germany. That litany represents the places where just my immediate family has served. July 3, 2015 at 9:29 AM. View my complete profile.
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The River's Edge: July 2009
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Reflections on Life and Nature. Wednesday, July 29, 2009. Investments Good and Not-So-Good. The other day found me weeding in the garden and thinking about investments, as in "Geez, if I calculated all the time, money, and effort that went into these tomatoes, I suspect they'd start to look pretty expensive." But worth it, mind you, definitely worth it. That got me thinking about other investments I've made over the years: some good, some not-so-good. Bad contractors. 'Nuff said. 2) Good pans. Same t...
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The River's Edge: June 2010
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Reflections on Life and Nature. Wednesday, June 23, 2010. George Washington’s Farewell Address. We venerate George Washington as the “Father of Our Country,” and yet, too often, we forget the man and what he stood for. Over the past few weeks, I’ve been reading and re-reading Washington’s Farewell Address. I’ve summarized a few of those themes below:. The ideal of the citizen legislator; term limits. The importance of unity. Which is not to say that Washington or the other Founders wanted power concentra...
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The River's Edge: May 2009
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Reflections on Life and Nature. Saturday, May 30, 2009. So, we've had some interesting fortune cookies over the years- Becky swears she got one that said, "You will be married soon," just after we started dating- but one I got at a Vietnamese restaurant last week takes the cake for interestingness if not for its predictive power: Worry not that no one knows of you seek to be worth knowing. . 160;That hits a little near the mark. Maybe those Chinese are on to something . . . . Wednesday, May 20, 2009.
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The River's Edge: March 2010
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Reflections on Life and Nature. Monday, March 29, 2010. If William Blake found “heaven in a grain of sand,” I find it in plants. Sounds goofy, I know, but consider, for a moment, these green growing things. You know the old magic trick, where the guy pulls a rabbit or a bouquet of plastic flowers out of an empty top hat? Well, plants do that all the time, only on a much grander scale. Another flick of the wand and we have a tulip, a kelp forest, a redwood tree. Self defense, and reproduction. Some tempt ...
