goats | goats
Aug.12.2012
… The English Goat …
Can’t resist to share this image with you – received as a birthday present yesterday. Natasha was inspired by a recent camping trip and my story ‘Goats are Goats,’ which I posted in three instalments here.
The drawing not only hilariously fits the rainy...
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Jul.29.2012
What I saw across the road, through the watery gauze of the side window, sent an electrifying jolt through me. Magnified, blazing eyes lanced through mine, saying – you’ll find what you want. For a brief moment he was there, an intense presence, a man dressed in emerald green at the corner of...
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Jul.28.2012
Drenched, we stepped into a steaming kitchen. A sizeable family was gathered for a meal. Men had spread their wet jumpers on chairs near the central cooker. In a nook above the table hung a plain crucifix. The matriarch served food. When she saw our bedraggled state, she dropped her ladle to fetch...
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Jul.24.2012
… Goats are Goats …
For your enjoyment - the first of two instalments.
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Friends warned me – goats are trouble, they’re stubborn, they gobble up everything in reach and reach everything, fences are useless – to no avail, my brain cells were committed....
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Jul.22.2010
On July 21, 2010, fourteen middle-aged women and one fearless man hiked to a place called Headquarters Pass, one of the places to enter the Bob Marshall Wilderness. I have a real yen to go into the wilderness, but so far I just skirt around the boundaries.
We weren’t serious backpackers but...
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Apr.18.2010
It was the first book that was all mine and I slept with it under my pillow. All the other books in the house belonged to Mom or were shared with my brother and sister, neither of whom cared anything about reading or books, not then, not when I was ten and they were eight and five. My sister was...
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Mar.16.2010
I was tucking into a slice of qanafi at my favorite vendor in the Nablus casbah yesterday when a gang of Palestinian reporters and officials intruded on my guilty pleasure. This was at Aqsa Sweets, which readers of THE SAMARITAN'S SECRET will know as the place favored by the hero of my Palestinian...
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Nov.08.2008
Clicker training is for all animals, check out this goat with his retrieve, go circle,pray and other tricks!
I have taken a lot of pictures of clicker training over the years, but this was the first clicker trained goat! His name is Bently and was quite the ham!
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