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Archive for the ‘Happy Monday’ Category

  • In Praise of Pizza and Handmade Olives

    26 Oct 2011

    The island of Santorini, one of the many Greek Islands that draw tourists, is about a 2 hour ferry boat…

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  • Crete

    17 Oct 2011

    Josh and I had been planning the trip since before he came back from Iraq. Having never been to Greece,…

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  • Moses: November 1998 – September 2011

    03 Oct 2011

    This is the story of a dog’s life. It was the winter of 1998, a Houston Christmas Eve and the…

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  • Pulled Skin, Tattoos and Other Matters

    27 Sep 2011

    I sat across from the bridge table and looked at her skin. From a distance she looked 40, but once…

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  • This week’s Five

    Selected Fire Facts

    1. Over 1million acres burned in wildfires in Texas this summer.

    2. Wildfire is first recorded in the Late Silurian fossil record, 420 million years ago, by fossils of charcoalified plants. Apparently not due to anthropogenic interference.

    3. The name 'bonfire' is believed to be derived from the Celtic custom of burning the bones of the cattle which were slaughtered at Samhain - a 'bone fire'.

    4. Celebratory bonfires have historical precedence in Alpine and Central Europe, Australia, Canada, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan Scandinavia, Slavic Europe, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, and College Station.

    5. "He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only in the things, and not in the significances", quoted from Jack London in "To Build A Fire'.

  • In the most recent past…

    • Saturday in Patagonia
    • Patagonia…
    • Somewhere over the Austrian Alps, ca. 1991. Approx. 3500m altitude, declining.
    • 90 Minutes In Heaven by Don Piper
    • To Build A Fire
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