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June 7, 2020 / Houses

Cottage Status Report 20200607

I am pleased to report that the family of dock spiders is enjoying the fine spring weather. They bask in the midday sunshine in a physically distant array. All seven of them, spaced out in their own isolated zones of dock real estate, ensuring I will maintain a distance of at least a ten-foot pole. …

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April 23, 2020 / Houses

Suburban Status Report 20200423

I sat outside on my deck in the sunshine a few days ago, when April was behaving a little better than right now, reading the New Yorker while freezing my ass off but stubbornly clinging to the notion that being outside was better than being inside. My all-weather fake-o wicker loveseat emerged from the winter …

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February 2, 2020 / Houses

Send Me Dead Flowers

I always have flowers in my house. Or maybe not exactly always, but as close as I can get, given my current circumstances of living in suburbia. Apparently, suburbia does not believe in flowers. There are no fruit markets in suburbia, the places where I used to pick up some sunflowers or tulips when I …

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Book Cover: How I Invented the Internet
How I Invented the Internet
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Nowhere like This Place: Tales from a Nuclear Childhood

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