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A tale of two kitties

Posted on August 10, 2013 by Heather

We lost one of our cats recently. Mr. Allnut (named for Humphrey Bogart’s character in The African Queen) asked to go out at about 4 one morning a few weeks ago, and I let him go. He never came back, … Continue reading →

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Grape-Nuts, dynamite, and drought

Posted on August 5, 2011 by Martin

This summer in Central Texas has been extraordinary even by our hellish standards. Yesterday the official state climatologist (did you even know we had one of those?), John Nielsen-Gammon, reported that July 2011 was the hottest month in Texas since … Continue reading →

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Gratuitous beauty

Posted on May 20, 2011 by Heather

Our friend John Burnett recently returned from a trip to Japan, one of a handful of places he’d never been in a long career as a reporter for NPR. As a specialist in the American Southwest and Latin America, he … Continue reading →

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Of mothers and mountains

Posted on October 8, 2010 by Heather

I’ve just introduced myself to the pleasures of Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There. Called the father of wildlife conservation in the United States, Leopold heard in the revving of the great American economic and … Continue reading →

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Sorry, Dad: wilderness and government regulation

Posted on March 26, 2010 by Heather

Harmonic convergences have ordained that I’m not done pondering wilderness yet. For my recent post on “Mapping the geography of hope: our place in the wilderness,” I once again used a quotation without having read its source. My latest hit-and-run … Continue reading →

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