STOP IT!

by Kevin T McEneaney Voting produces damaging trauma. New statistics have been compiled by shrinks; stats reveal the trauma of shame endured by voters who voted for the loser. Deep…

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Recycling glass and other household stuff

by Bill Schlesinger Many folks feel good when they take waste materials to their local recycling center.  What they may not realize is that what they deliver—paper, cardboard, glass, plastic…

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Slush

  by Kevin T McEneaney A slurry, sloppy subject to speak of. In French: niege fondue, snow fondue, charmingly comic as cuisine comment. English appropriates the world from Welsh since…

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Homer’s Odyssey, Book One

In 1991 I acquired the paperback edition of A Commentary on Homer’s Odyssey by Stephen Huebeck, Stephanie West, and J.B. Hainsworth, which had first appeared in hardback from Clarendon in…

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Hawk

Photo by Bill Keller by Bill Keller Call me up to the ridge, again. Though it’s late, and I’m tired, I’ll come,  climbing without my headlamp through lichens round as…

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Closing the Nutrient Loop

by Bill Schlesinger In preindustrial times, human excrement was recognized as a fertilizer; it was gathered up and delivered to farm fields by the “Honey Wagon.”   That was closed-loop nutrient…

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Rural Ramble

Verbank Village Falls by KTM by Kevin T McEneaney Rural Ramble   That gentle tapping of rain on the roof in winter offers a sigh of relief when landscape is…

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State of the Union

by Kevin  T McEneaney All birds have been demoted for singing too early in the morning, also for appearing in too many lyric poems, thus, occupying space better given to…

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In/Out

by Bill Schlesinger Out                                                                        In ___________________________________________________________ Okefenokee Swamp                                    White Paint Non-stick pans   …

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Christmas at Hudson Hall: Aston Magna

From left: Priscilla Herreid, Daniel Stepner, Peter Sykes, Loretta O'Sullivan, Laura Jeppesen, Julie Leven by Kevin T McEneaney “Music for a Winter Solstice” was the program for Aston Magna Chamber…

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