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JANUARY'S TWO FACES
Winter has settled in for the next few months, with its bony grip on the hillsides, the gray and balding trees, the sheet-metal skies....
GULLIVER'S TRAVAILS
Poor Gulliver, I feel sorry for him after he washes up on the Island of Lilliput and falls asleep only to awake tied to the ground by...
HARD TIMES
The grim news that a Texas judge declared that the ACA - i.e., "Obama Care," is unconstitutional filled cyber space last night. It was...
MID-TERM ELECTIONS
The last little trickle of disappointments from the midterms came through the radio while we were driving through long, sloping fields of...
THE DREGS OF OCTOBER
I'm staring out of a large window onto a stone wall where an ancient grape vine hangs heavy with bunches of blue grapes. There's no one...
AFTER THE EQUINOX
It's fall here in southern France. The tourists have thinned out to a trickle of rubbernecks aiming their smart phones at almost anything...
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