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August 16, 2009
- Those of you who still read and admire the Beat writers and their heirs might be entertained by a brief account of my two summers attending the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado. I was there in the late 1970's and, since I had already published a book of poetry, had the good fortune to be a kind of "graduate assistant" for Allen ...
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June 8, 2009
- The Greeks named the sun Helios, but the Romans used the name Sol, which is still in use today. Due to the important role the sun plays in our lives, it has been studied, perhaps, more than any other object in the universe, outside our own planet Earth. Image Credit: SOHO/Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (EIT) consortium The SUN, Not AGW, Is The Thing Riding here on the Oblate Spheroid, ...
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January 10, 2009
- Here in the Rocky Mountains, we've had record winds. Over at the tiny hamlet of Ward, not but a dozen miles as the raven flies, they clocked the blasts last week at 108mph. That's hurricane force, by anyone's standards. The weather-person says it's the La Niña jet stream that's causing this upheaval. Wind pounds against the side of our cabin each night, the pines groan as they try to bend and ...
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November 20, 2008
- Loneliness took me on many journeys. Thoreau wrote: "Men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after." So in the middle of December, after I finished my classes and quit my job, I drove to Colorado with a man I had only known for two weeks and married him. His name was Jack. No, not the first Jack, the second Jack. There are four Jacks in a ...
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