TGIF – What do you say to a glowing coworker?

My short answer…If you have heard they have cancer, don’t ask “How are you?” Talk about a loaded question with no real answers at the beginning of treatment. “How you

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Farewell, complete walker

For most of us who care about ecology and the environment, there was some personal experience that brought us there. For me, it was wilderness hiking, beginning 30-plus years ago

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Week 2 – Day 2 Working on an interior tan…

I had a funny thought as I lay on the…hmmm, I really don’t know what to call it…the platform(?) while x-rays were taken of my throat before my radiation treatments

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One down, six to go – The end of the first week of radiation

So far so good. Other than a raspy voice not much to report after the first weeks radiation treatment. No news is good news I guess. The promised cooling effect

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Millions of Missing Birds, Vanishing in Plain Sight – New York Times

Verlyn Klinkenborg has a new piece out. His observations on humanity and our relationship to the natural world do not put humanity in the best of lights…Rightfully so in my

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Day 5 – Bathing in the artificial sun…along about the orbit of Mercury.

There was a break in the afternoon gully washers yesterday. I took that opportunity to play a bit of catchup on the yard work. I managed to mow about 2/3

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Day four in atom crunching…

The weather the past two days was…to be nice…wet. Occasional heavy thunderstorms interspersed with steady rain. Short periods of local street flooding. One of the changes I have seen in

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