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Good / Bad / Good News
26 October 2025 Last night I watched Rachel Maddow’s extended coverage of last weekend’s No Kings rallies, seven million Americans protesting across all 50 states in multiple venues, cities large and small. The Weeks Crossing rally in Dover, New Hampshire (my 6th protest of the Felon-in-Chief) was the largest of the those I’ve attended, coupled…
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Flower Power
13 October 2025 The grey morning of 8 October, my birthday and day 5 of a frustrating case of laryngitis, did not begin auspiciously. I woke from some sad dream morbidly wondering who would, when the time came, take on the task of spreading my ashes around the flower beds of my home, joining those…
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October Accounting
4 October 2025 Here it is, Dear Reader, nearly two months since my last post, well into my birth month, and I’m struggling to account for all that has transpired since last I addressed you.. What’s been happening? My last hummingbird deserted the feeder outside my kitchen window over a week ago, no doubt bound…
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Gundalow
6 August 2025 In this brave new world of OpenAI offering both “companionship” for the lonely and the undoing of education as I once knew it, I’ve been seeking solace from such discombobulating changes in the macrocosm—and in my personal microcosm as well. The latest physical annoyance in the latter: floating bodies—chips of bone in…
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On Wisconsin
29 July – 2 August 2025 The coincidence of birthdays in July—my brother-in-law Reed “Chad” Andrew turned 91 on the 13th and nephew Rob Andrew 58 on the 25th—brought me back to Wisconsin once again this year and a most welcome reunion with family, some very fine brunches, a return to the still astonishing Milwaukee…
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July so far: Good Trouble in the Summertime
22 July 2025 I’m was up this morning far earlier than accustomed for this retiree, as Levi Ellis and his painting crew arrived at 8 am to restore my shower and apse ceilings and our big deck to their original pristine state. And it’s unusually cool for mid-July in New Hampshire, a welcome reprieve from…
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What to Us Now is the Fourth of July?
2 July 2025 The proximity of Independence Day and recently hearing filmmaker Ken Burns speak of his upcoming series on the American Revolution have together sent me back to re-reading “the unanimous declaration of the thirteen united States of America.” Several statements against “the present King of Great Britain” stand uncomfortably out, beginning with the…
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Respite
27 June 2025 Walking out of the Portsmouth Public Library last Tuesday was like walking into an oven, and since then, the 103o my GTI registered there in the parking lot has been confirmed as a record-breaker for the port town where proximity to the cold Atlantic waters generally means cooler-than-inland temperatures. Not so this…
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Memorial Days
4 June 2025 On this year’s designated Memorial Day, I rode my bike for the first time in I’m sure at least a year, enjoyed myself, and celebrated the fact that I did not fall off. The next day, I spoke with my former acting teacher, Pete, just after his 80th birthday, and he thanked…
Georgeann Murphy 