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Good Times Down South by

It has come to my attention that everyone in New Zealand is having more fun than me.  This is not hard to do, since I have two children at home under the age of four.  The elder of the two is potty training, so I spend an uncomfortable portion of my time wiping pee off [...]

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The Running of the Lambs by

The Running of the Lambs

New Zealand is gearing up for the 2011 Rugby World Cup, which is some kind of a game involving a ball.  They like rugby here.  I once witnessed the entire city of Wellington go insane because a match called “The Sevens” was coming to town.  Thousands of people dressed in costume, roaming the streets in [...]

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Acoustic Tile Ceiling

Perpendicular rivers                 cut gorges across               [...]

Fisher Gallery

Parlor Trick (Caernarfon Castle)

Fog

She talked often about the fog The ‘Pea Souper’, ‘London Particular’, That smothered all the London Streets With corrosive fog, [...]

The Czech Republic

The Czech Republic

The boy woke in the morning, and at the top of the kitchen’s garbage bin, with pieces of chewed meat [...]

The Last Tenants

Their evenings mapped in markings on the floor: her love seat faced the dinner-hour news with breadth to flank her [...]

Budding

I can’t guess what planted this impression somewhere along my trachea, halfway between the brain and the heart, which I [...]