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Bombing
April 2013 – Boston Marathon bombing. Lives interrupted, race stopped, city on edge.
April 2014 – I am at the eight mile marker waiting for last year’s survivors: those with new limbs and those with impaired eyesight; the runners who
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More Migrants
Kevin and I are not alone in our migration to Boston. This year, there are 32,000 runners with probably as many family members providing support along the course. This doesn’t match the number of arctic terns or monarch butterflies who
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Boston Bound
The arctic tern holds the record for the longest annual migration recorded by any animal as it moves between Greenland and Antarctica in a zig-zag route that covers 44,000 miles a year.
In another part of the globe, around 1.3 million
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Total Eclipse of the Sun (With apologies to Bonnie Tyler)
It’s Total Eclipse Day for much of the United States. Where I live in southwest Michigan it was just a 95 total percent eclipse opportunity. Still, we were invested.
The day was seventy-degree warm, cloudless (which is good for eclipse
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Richard Hunt
Yesterday I attended a special memorial honoring the life of American sculptor Richard Hunt, who passed away last December. I didn’t know much about Hunt, other than having walked past his local installations uncountable times.
My favorite is a work
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Brooklyn Bridge
It happened in the middle of the night, little more than 12 hours ago, that a cargo ship struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, sending cars and people on the bridge into the icy water below.
Because I
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Because I’m Irish . . .
And this is St. Patrick’s Day, I wish every reader “Erin go bragh,” which means “Ireland forever.”
Actually we’ve been celebrating with corned beef and various vegetable accessories for a couple days. You know them: boiled cabbage, potatoes, and carrots.
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Oscar on Steroids
Last night was Hollywood’s annual homage to itself. For the most part, it followed the usual routine. Jimmy Kimmel, as MC, wore various costumes and made inane jokes. As usual, one of the prime awards came early, most likely as
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Valentine’s Day
The first year Earl and I dated we gave each other Valentine’s Day gifts that were thoughtful and appropriate for the arc of our relationship.
He gave me a signed and numbered print from the G. Harvey catalog. Titled “Exhibition
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Super Bowl, Ho-Hum
The game is over; I’m weary and heading to bed. But before I hit the pillow, here is my assessment of tonight’s game. Tomorrow you’ll get everyone else’s.
I had no real investment in who won. Both teams had excellent
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