etc., recall the word
resoldered here
in a pane of sand.
— R. Kenney

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Recently this blog (and my Flickr account) turned 20 years old, forever in Internet years. I went back through it all, retracing digital footprints made on what feels like a different planet. Here are some highlights.

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How I hauled myself, two teens, an 80 lb dog, and a whole load of crap 4000+ miles across six states in twenty days using an electric vehicle. And survived to tell the tale.

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1972

Prefer to listen to this post? My sightseeing companions, today’s journey takes us to a single year in film history.  It’s the year The Joy of Sex was published. The year Nixon recorded himself chatting about hiring thieves to break into an office complex. The year an American used the Sicilian Defense to open a […]

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Descent to Xibalba

Prefer to listen to this post? Travelers, today we journey to Middle America. No, not the middle America of small towns, wingnut politics, and climate denialism (though that’s a frightful destination we really should visit someday). I refer here to the original middle America which historians refer to as Mesoamerica, the collection of cultures inhabiting […]

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No Kings

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