It’s the morning after Thanksgiving. Everything is in quiet repose. If we were bears, we’d all be preparing for winter’s hibernation after shamelessly gorging ourselves on heaps of sweet potato, mounds of stuffing, mountains of turkey, and piles of desert. I know I have a lot to be thankful for: a loving wife who is [...]
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With my students are out of class, scurrying around campus as they worked on their next class project, I decided to stay in and fight the dolrums of a low-level but pernicious cold that won’t loosen it’s clutches and has kept me off the pre-dawn streets for the past week, the foot-dragging of the insurance [...]
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Had an interesting walk this morning. At least, I think I walked because it seemed to be over as soon as I left the house. I guess I was engrossed in toughts triggered by a touching telephone call I received yesterday afternoon from a new-found friend in Michigan, a kindred soul, a fellow traveler who [...]
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I just wrote this piece for an electronic journal column. Though you might be interested: Wow, was there more than a chill in the air this pre-dawn, south Georgia morning, and I was in my grubby shorts! Tis two months before Christmas and the thuds I heard along my route was the sound of the [...]
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