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Dec.05.2012
  Introductions and the addressing of absurdity:  As my fellow travelers, I’m sure are aware, Alpha Centauri is a binary star system, since...
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Dec.06.2012
  December 6   MOSAIC     I couldn’t prevent this plate from shattering, so I saved all the pieces, losing none.  I laid...
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Dec.07.2012
  December 7   ORIGINS     Pain-filled interactions with people better suited to be left alone changed me in the way of...
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Dec.08.2012
  December 8   THE WAY I DO IT       Cooking by smell, parking by ear, recovering by touch.  The latter has to be done...
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Dec.09.2012
  December 9   CLIMBING ON THE ARC     If time swings and the seasons swirl and I pulse out my existence, why does the bird's...
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Dec.10.2012
  December 10   ELECTRIC CONNECTIONS       I step into a room and take its currency.  Is the flow good?  Steady?...
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Dec.11.2012
  December 11   TAPERS       I wax poetic and burn the candle at both ends.  I borrow from the beginning, I steal from...
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Dec.12.2012
  December 12   BLEATING FORMALITY     Stupidity stalks me when I am tired, hijacking my mouth.  I can put this off to pilot...
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Dec.15.2012
  December 15   GOOSE       I round this corner nearly every day.  There in the field stands a flock of problems...
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Dec.16.2012
  December 16   GOOD SAMARITAN PIE     The meal prepared from my cognition, the bread and jam of humility, salad of expectation,...
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Mar.23.2012
I shared a street corner with a woman today. She was walking from Starbucks and we stopped to cross the street. She arrived there first and pressed...
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Mar.26.2012
Trayvon Martin's death recalls a college class mate. I was stationed in Okinawa and taking University of Maryland courses with other military members...
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Mar.31.2012
We bought a few things at the World Market last night (including a quite hideous little bowl sort of shaped like a gray elephant in which my wife can...
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Apr.01.2012
Facebook is one of those modern computer applications we use to divert our attention and occupy our time, along with 'connecting' in the modern sense...
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Apr.13.2012
This week and next are apparently vacation weeks in the office. Emails and meetings have evaporated, and milestones and deadlines are pushed out....
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Apr.17.2012
Two sides of me are warring, as usual. It's about one of my furry buddies, the Quinn Cat. Quinn Cat roams at night. His early shift begins at 10:30...
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May.04.2012
It sounds like a great power. I imagine children running down the street shouting, "It's here, it's here, the Super Moon is coming!" It rises, its...
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May.07.2012
The sun ruled the last three days and the mercury has popped up. Hit 86 F here today. Beautiful. Ate my first strawberry off one of my plants...
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May.12.2012
I wrote myself awake this morning. That happens many days. A crack opens on sleep's walls. Words and ideas squirm through the cracks to penetrate my...
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May.26.2012
This movie has slowly stolen up on me and my list of favorite movies. I never saw it or heard of it when it was first released. Now it's one that I...
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Red Room Blogs banner photograph (at the top of the page) is of writer Ernest Hemingway with Lady Duff Twysden, Hadley Hemingway, and three unidentified people at a cafe in Pamplona, Spain, during the Fiesta of San Fermin in July 1925; photograph used courtesy of the Ernest Hemingway Collection, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston.