drought | drought
Sep.07.2012
I wasn’t going to admit this to anyone, because the last time I did, it was met with uproarious laughter. But this morning, eleven years later, I’ve been vindicated by The New York Times.
In the fall of 2011 my husband and I moved from Manhattan, with our two children, to the New...
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Sep.01.2012
The Oil Man, tall and lanky with dark hair and gray sideburns, showed up the other day and said the oil companies in California’s San Joaquin Valley ``are terrified and I’ll tell you why – it’s taking 40 barrels of water to pump out one barrel of oil these days.
``It’s dry, and in some places...
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Aug.04.2012
In our front yard here in Illinois there is a perfectly shaped crescent of dormant grass. The brown patch exactly follows the shadow pattern of a giant sycamore tree to the south of our yard. The grass beneath this sycamore has hung in there through a summer of drought. But where the sun strikes...
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Jul.17.2012
FNN political reporter Stacy Conundrum spoke to a Romney operative and then filed this exclusive report.
In the increasingly bitter Presidential race between Romney vs Obama, the Romney campaign headquarters is putting the finishing touches on a new attack plan. It...
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Mar.07.2012
Nancy and I drove down California’s Salinas Valley yesterday, into South Monterey County, by or through the towns of Gonzales, Soledad and Greenfield, then further south by King City and San Lucas and into San Ardo and Bradley and even into San Miguel in San Luis Obispo County.
Although this is the...
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Sep.25.2011
Okay, but the tree in front, that you barely see, and the wicked branches hanging down from up above are very clear. I meant to do that!
I did!
Really!
In photography, I was reading a book on it, yes, BEFORE I took this photo, and the author was saying that you need to take a picture of...
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Aug.08.2011
Yesterday I came into town and went straight to see Daddy. He was laying in his nursing home bed all bundled up and dozing when I arrived. It was close to his lunch time so I didn't mind keeping him awake. He actually looks pretty good except for the continuing swelling in his legs but the arm...
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Jul.01.2011
image via familyvacationcritic.com
I talked to my old friend, Eric Taylor, musician and songwriter extraordinaire. He lives in Texas, the current epicenter of a major drought and hundred-plus temperatures, and the whole damn place is now a tinderbox.
We all want to pop a few tops, 'cue some steaks...
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Jun.15.2010
We can debate the various causes and deny climate change. Or we can all just agree that this summer in Iraq and Afghanistan the mercury is likely to top 120 degrees Fahrenheit.
In the shade.
Of a dry, crowded nations.
With few reliable sources of water.
In that case it’s worth considering how...
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May.27.2010
Water drips from the bill of my WOJB cap, runs in rivulets down the front of my soft shell jacket, funnels onto my clammy nylon pants to eventually soak into the leather of my swamper boots. If I'd planned to be out longer, I would have dressed differently, more securely, but I know that in an...
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