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The Daily Tweets, 2010-02-25: Global warming

In celebration of the end of Fake Breakup, it snowed today like crazy. Which led to my first tweet of the day, referencing climate change deniers. A later tweet about today’s Mudflats post on Sen. Mark Begich also has to do with climate change and, specifically, carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. So [...]
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The Daily Tweets, 2010-02-16: Lucille Clifton, RIP

Lucille Clifton reading two poems at the 2008 Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival. Poet, rest in peace. Joshua Wade admits to murder of Mindy Schloss, but also Della Brown. RIP to them. He will spend life in prison. http://bit.ly/aeCdf2 # Just learned of the death of Lucille Clifton on Saturday. A poet of “profundity, earthiness and humor”. [...]
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My story of 2009

Not quite ALL about my 2009, because that would take a year to write. This only took several hours.
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Theodicy (poem)

Nine years ago, in July 2000, my friend Wendy’s daughter Jessie was killed by a drunk driver.  I wrote this poem for Wendy.  But mourning can be a hard & private thing, & I didn’t want to intrude — it took me a year to feel able to give it to her. We talked today about [...]
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Deaths

Today’s a day that’s had a lot of deaths in it.  The first was the death of someone I hadn’t known of before, a woman named Jerri Nielsen, an ER doctor from Ohio who was working in Antarctica and had to treat herself when she discovered she had cancer. That was in 1999, & she [...]
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Rial Eugene Green, 1919–2009

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Remembering Nicholas Hughes (1962–2009)

Nicholas Hughes: a wildlife biologist at University of Alaska Fairbanks who died by his own hand in March 2009. Something tells me his family, friends, colleagues, & partner saw him as something far more than one the headlines over the past week have painted him as — the putative victim of his mother's "suicide gene." His death was a tragedy, yes: but a tragedy because it was a loss of him & for all who knew him. And for many of those, like me, who didn't.
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Didn’t notice when I took it….

Me, today First day of snow in Anchorage this year, though doesn’t look like it’ll last. Enough that I had to brush the snow off my car this morning, & take it real slow & easy driving to work. At lunchtime I decided to take a brief walk to take pics of the snow for [...]
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How it feels

Today’s Start Walking blog: Tuesday, 11 July 2006: How it feels One thing I’ve noticed more & more lately is how good it feels now to walk. Even going up hills, as I did this morning on my bus stop walk: I remember how just last year, when my car at the time was out of [...]
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Sunflowers for my mother

Mom, these are some of the sunflowers Mark’s work sent for Dad, because they were your favorite flower. I was always lousy at remembering Mother’s Day or your birthday early enough to get a card to you. But Mom, today I remember & love you. I’m taking good care of myself. [...]
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