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Jul.02.2010
After hearing yet another potential reader beg off because he only reads books on his Kindle now, I've bowed down to the best interests of my debut novel, To The Last Drop.
The conversion process was much more frustrating than I anticipated. My publisher was kind enough to grant me full...
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Jun.21.2010
The tragic images of dying, oil-drenched animals and the underwater spew in the Gulf are sickening. They make us feel ashamed to be human, certainly ashamed to be driving our cars. There is one upside to the unfolding disaster, though: at least we don't have to drink it.The Delaware River, in...
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Jun.18.2010
Hey, I just published an op-ed piece in AOL News on the links between BP's Deepwater oil spill offshore in salt water and the implications of a corrective energy policy that could pollute or dry up freshwater supplies inland. Here it is:
In his Oval Office speech on the BP oil spill, President...
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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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Mar.19.2010
Take a look at the following sentence to see if you recognize anything:
政府は過激派グループの活動を注意深く監視した。
Whenever I confront unknown kanji, I try to identify components and patterns. In this case, one thing jumps out at me—this sentence is soggy! Five of the 12 kanji contain the “water” radical, ! In...
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Feb.26.2010
If you had to draw “violent,” what images would you use? Maybe you’d think back to the board game Clue: Colonel Mustard committed the murder in the billiard room with a rope, whereas Mrs. Peacock used a lead pipe in the conservatory. Or maybe your mind would turn to machine guns, bombs, and other...
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Feb.18.2010
You're told Bimini bread is wonderful. You must have some. Where's the bakery, you ask. She giggles. No, she says, you ask who's baking that morning and go to their homes to buy it. The next morning you rise early to track some down. Your water bottle that you left in the refrigerator is empty,...
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Dec.05.2009
December 5
THE BOAT
On my ride home from work there is a boat stuck between two trees in the middle of a horse pasture next to a riverbed so dry it's filled with grass. I think the boat is me. I feel for the boat every time I see it. Turned on edge, waiting for a river, which doesn't exist...
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Nov.27.2009
Ok, so the challenge I mentioned yesterday starts today. Question #1 is "Trace the water that you drink from precipitation to tap." On this side of the Continental Divide, our watersheds, including the valley's Ten Mile Creek and Prickly Pear Creek, flow into the greater Missouri River watershed....
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Nov.25.2009
Thank you for the yellow light way off in the distance, the only one that shines in the darkness of night.
Thank you for the dog whining in his kennel because he knows of the warmth and comfort that exists in this house.
Thank you for the cosy fleece lined boots and the way I can wiggle my toes...
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