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January 18, 2015 I’ve been haunting the riverfront, looking for eagles—not a one. I had lunch at my friend Jerry’s house, on Friday. He was so eager for eagles he kept jerking his head toward the window view of the … Continue reading →

January 17, 2015 She was born during the great flood of 1993, one of the worst disasters in Mississippi River history. On July 16, she was in her mother’s womb, in her own calm water, oblivious to the conditions and … Continue reading →

January 15, 2015 On July 24, 2014, thirteen miles east of Cahokia Mounds near Lebanon, Illinois, in the uplands near Silver Creek’s Looking Glass Prairie, an archaeology team made an astounding discovery: a human footprint. Radiocarbon dating indicated the print … Continue reading →

I write this on the shortest day and the longest night of the year, the winter solstice, celebrated and observed for 170,000 years, on cave and canyon walls, at Stonehenge in England, Woodhenge at Cahokia Mounds, and hundreds of other … Continue reading →

January 8, 2015 I often write satirically, and I often (not deliberately) offend someone. That person never lets me have it in public, but I get the occasional private message. It is so easy to offend—merely speak your mind. The … Continue reading →

January 6, 2015 I was going to walk at the mall, but then the sun came out, not a warming sun to be sure but a theater light focused stage west. I put on ear flaps, a fleece neck warmer, … Continue reading →

January 6, 2015 I was sound asleep, lying on my right side, back to the bedroom door and dreaming that jazz singer/bassist/babe Esperanza Spalding was plucking my body with her wondrous fingers, when something heavy landed on my hip, pivoted … Continue reading →

December 31, 21014 (maybe) Physicists are working on the problem of whether or not time is a human construct, or an actual entity. If it is an entity, human history has meaning and Taylor Swift has anorexia. If it’s a … Continue reading →

December 27, 2014 Frogs croak today, down in my two ponds and along the Calhoun County wetlands. It is winterspring, the new fifth season of the Anthropocene, the epoch of extinction, yet life is stirring, and the hibernators awake, and … Continue reading →

December 18, 2014 It is Day 12 of my illness. Sometimes you shake the blahs, sometimes the blahs shake you. I walked to the front door at noon and looked outside to my bowl-shaped front yard. I would have settled … Continue reading →