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Wisconsin evening

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night night garden

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i wrote

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words, words, words

cross posted from my SubStack Since I was a boy, I have had a minor interest in differences between words Americans use for fairly common things and Canadian uses. The reason for this was my mother was American and my father Canadian – when cousins would visit or we would visit my Aunt (my mother’s sister) in Rochester NY I came across different words for the same thing. The one that sticks in…

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growth

Something different this time. I’ve had this book since it was a baby back in 1993. We had been in our first (and perhaps last) house for a year and I had ambitions to plant a vegetable garden. I don’t remember how this book came into my life – a gift? – did I buy it? – I just don’t know. It is now May 2025 and this coming July marks the 33rd year in this house. My wife died more than three years…

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An Atlas

Somewhat off kilter but so is history and the maps depicting history. I was watching a series of YouTube videos done by Alec Ryrie for Gresham College during Covid where he mentioned this atlas. I had a 1964 version of Shepherd’s excellent historical atlas which I gave to my granddaughter. But this atlas promises to be more useful for my current interests. Interestingly Ryrie critiqued using an…

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Non-fiction

I haven’t written here for a very long time – as the posts don’t seem to be dated, I cannot be more precise than that. But, the last post was entitled Fiction so I thought I would argue with myself a bit here. I am, in fact, slowly working my way through a non-fiction work called The Instructor’s Voice. This book began as a ten year or so blog about my experience teaching online. This was not…

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a few things (another oldie resurrected)

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a light breeze (an oldie resurrected)

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hope

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the window (in two parts)

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sine qua non-2

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fair green

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right now

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zed

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the world slowly wakes

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running