Category: Random
Me talkin to myself
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After a week of below-freezing nights. After an ice storm that shut down Oregon. After days and days of wind and rain. What’s blooming? Pansies, of course. Delicate. Deceptive. They will always be in my garden.
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Studying for months: Done Taking practice tests: Done Showing up for an actual test: Done Getting a 94% passing grade: Done Now I have an FCC-issued technician level license and a call sign: KK7JQN. Things people do with their ham radios: volunteer on emergency neighborhood response teams, provide communications at long-distance running events. Lots of…
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It’s hard to guess which of us was more surprised. In our most recent book group, Irene Palmer asked me if I had read “House Made of Dawn” by N. Scott Momaday. Happens I had, thanks to a literature professor committed to diversity in the literary canon she taught. But hold on there, Irene. How…
