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Wild Thoughts: An Online Journal of Environmental Writing
in WeblinksHank emailed to let me know about a new journal he and some of his colleagues put together this past month. Several of them are graduate students inthe University of Montana environmental writing. As they describe it, Wild Thoughts "provides high-quality nature-based art, poetry, photography, fiction, and essays from everywhere, to everyone online. We have…
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Just Another World Championship
I realized when I got to Kurt’s Super Bowl party in Cambridge tonight that the only reason I had come was so that I could bike home afterward. After all, it was already the fourth quarter and I had only watched about five minutes of the game so far–not the game, actually, but rather the…
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Beginning Lent, by way of Hotel Rwanda
Today it feels like Lent began a few days early. Monica and I walked over to Coolidge Corner just around midday to catch the 1:30 showing of “Hotel Rwanda.” It was a gorgeous, spring-like day, with 50 degree temperatures helping the city shed a few layers of snow, dissolving the improvised landscape of snowbanks and…
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A few images of the blizzard of 2005
It’s been a week since the Blizzard of 2005, but we’re still living with the effects. During the first few days, the snow gave the city a pristine white coating, but now it’s quickly turning into a sullied, crusty mess as the temperature rises. Last night, we ran into this ravine between piles of snow.…
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Olive and Her New Godfather
in RegionBefore the big storm hit, I managed to get up to Cape Anne to see Tim and Meg for a little get-away. Their place in Lanesville is just far enough to feel like an escape but not so far that I can’t make the trip on a whim. While I was there, they asked me…
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Noon Basketball at BC in the NY Times
in UniversityJeanne sent me a link to this article in the NY Times that references the noon basketball pick-up games I take part in regularly at Boston College:CHESTNUT HILL, Mass., Jan. 20 – Around noon nearly every weekday, Boston College Coach Al Skinner rolls into an auxiliary gym at Conte Forum wearing gray jogging pants with…
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A Noreaster and a Return to Blogging
in NeighborhoodTonight I’m snowed in by a good old-fashioned Noreaster, and I’ve decided now is as a good a time as any return to the Whereproject. We’re supposed to get 20-30 inches and wind gusts of 50 mph (close to 70 on the Cape), so I’ll probably be hunkered done here at home until tomorrow night.…
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Christmas Eve, with Ukukele and Harmonica
in HometownIts Christmas Eve here in Fargo and the evening is winding down. Since my brothers and their families are with the in-laws this year, it’s just mom, dad, and I. Earlier we had a few other folks over after church to share a Scandinavian meal of Swedish meatballs, potatoes, potato sausage, and lefsa, with rice…
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Walking and Chewing Gum
in DissertationOf course there’s great irony in the fact that just as I’m writing an article on place blogging, I’m spending very little time either blogging or venturing very far beyond the space in front of my computer screen. In my darker moments, I fear that this is just an inherent part of academic work, the…