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There are birds, and then there’s Noodle
My new project is to get to know my garden’s avian regulars as individuals.
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Setting a course for solo adventure
I have long loved to travel in a way that gives some of my friends pause.
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How ‘holy days’ became vacation
The etymology of holiday is easy to see, coming from 'holy day,' a day of particular religious significance, often celebrating the life of a saint, during which no work was to be done.
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What we know about blackberries
That galloping sound? The rising darkness? Look out! Here they come!
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The book next to the one I was looking for
I never mastered the art of efficient library research. But I found great stuff.
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Puppy love, it’s not
A Labrador retriever provides a couple with a lesson in listening and love.
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I sing in praise of puttering
To putter is to improve the things at hand the way one cannot with the world at large.
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Making a MacGyver in Costa Rica
The 1980s TV action hero lives on – as a metaphor for creative adaptation.
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I am taught by towels
How have I learned Scottish phrases? Let’s say I soak up knowledge.
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Compassion keeps knocking
Our front door seems far too accessible in this African city.
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Tossing what the clutter elves snuck in
I felt like Daniel Boone taming a vast wilderness – my overstuffed basement.
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Finding the everyday in the exotic
To travel is to encounter the unfamiliar and strange. But not always.
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Notes to my garden denizens
Feeding birds, planting asparagus – even sleeping at night – are hardly routine.
Photos of the Week 10/15 Photos of the Week
Spectactors attend the opening of the Lumiere 2018 Grand Lyon Film Festival, in Lyon, France, Oct. 13.
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Our rocky road to rhododendrons
Any way you looked at it, Plaza Lake meant adventure.
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Of time, tide, and graduation
Mastery can be the work of one moment, or the task of many.
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My tuna fish revelation
How could something so dreary become so dreamy?
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Take me outside the ball game
How newlyweds with dueling team loyalties were united by a ballpark.
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Attack of the purple ‘bean trees’
We’d had wisteria for years before we were struck by this odd attribute.
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Meanwhile in ... Greenland, dog sleds were used to rush ballots to remote polling areas
And in Freetown, Sierra Leone, they are seeing fewer abused chimps in need of help.
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Learning English with a drawl
We were Vietnamese refugees. ‘Mr. Water’ was our texas landlord.
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The payback of follow-through
‘I’ll send you a postcard,’ I said to the phone store clerk.
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Meanwhile on ... Scotland's Isle of Lewis and Harris, Christians are extending a welcoming hand to a new mosque
And in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, the government has allowed more than 200 indigenous Bronze Age artifacts to leave the country for the first time.
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The Niger that I know
US friends worry about safety in Niger; Nigerien friends worry about US school shootings.
