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“Does Anyone Really Know What Time It Is?” – Chicago
NOW is the time! Mr. Bullfrog sez: “Time is fun when you’re having flies.” — Anonymous On March 11, 2012, most of the United States will switch to Daylight Saving Time, and over the coming weeks, as...
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Petition to the Sun
“May you live in interesting times.” – No one really knows who said it first. And so we are. The +2-inch long catkins of S. chaenomeloides open from reddish buds with yellow-orange anthers and attract...
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Is My Tinfoil Hat On Straight? (Protect Your Credit Cards)
Is my tinfoil hat on straight? “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” — Napoleon Hill from Think and Grow Rich, 1937 Science fiction is only fiction until an author’s work...
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Summer Solstice Memories: Then and Now
“Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.” — John Betjeman, Summoned by Bells The wooden screen door bangs behind her as she steps out and calls,...
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Weather…We Like It Or Not…
We’re now finished with seven months of 2012. As I marked my 63rd orbit around the sun in mid-July, I could easily proclaim that this year’s weather has been the weirdest of my entire life. My...
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Eggsperiments Beyond Egg Salad
“When you boil it down to the basics, creating new recipes is the art of cooking up chemistry experiments to feed our biology.” – Michelle UluOla Araucana chickens from South America have been crossed...
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Time To Get Excited About Getting Sirius
“It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out.” — Carl Sagan If you haven’t experienced the growing excitement yet, please allow me to introduce you to it. Stephen Sondheim’s...
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The Universal Principle: “To Love Is To Be Happy With”
Happy Valentine’s Day Love IS…moment-to-moment…eternal. Poets and songwriters have heralded that fact since before recorded history when human beings were passing along their wisdom with verbal...
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The Slowpoke Spring
There’s an old Wisconsin saying: “If you don’t like the weather, wait ten minutes—it will change.” While we chuckle, it’s with uneasiness, as we also know that’s factual. I suspect residents of other...
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“Never underestimate the power of a small group of committed people to change the world. In fact, it is the only thing that ever has.” — Margaret Mead On April 22, 2013, Earth Day, a beautiful jewel...
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