Archive For March 19, 2019
I sit around thinking I wasted my life. Seems I have heard you ponder the same concept. So I am looking at the plaques. On my wall. Hanging. There are only four. But if you had told me when I was young, I would earn any of these awards, any of them, even one, I…
For forty years, Herm Atkins has held the distinction of being the fastest native-born black American at the marathon distance. 2:11:52. But that’s not why he is an Original Gangster. We were at Bloomsday, visiting our friend OG Don Kardong. The field was scary loaded. I asked Herm how he felt he’d do. Have to…
She was a survivor and an alpha. And then she was legally shot and killed by a hunter. Yellowstone Park’s legendary wolf researcher Rick McIntyre reflects on the life of one of the park’s most famous canines. Rick McIntyre for Outside magazine. Mar 13, 2019 Until the last moment of her life, no matter what…
Norma checked into a Motel on her birthday. She was lonely, a little depressed at her age and so she decided to risk an adventure. She thought, “I’ll call one of those men you see advertised in phone books for escorts and sensual massages.” She looked through the phone book, found a full-page ad for…
Wolves & the Endangered Species Act – An Explainer. The Trump Administration plans to delist the gray wolf across the Lower 48. Here’s why that’s happening and what it means for the future of the species. By Wes Siler for Outside: Indefinitely Wild. Mar 7, 2019. During a speech on Wednesday that was closed to both…
Mexico has a faint physical smell all of her own, as each human being has. And this is a curious, inexplicable scent, in which there is resin and perspiration, and urine, among other things. – D.H. Lawrence, Mornings in Mexico. A pack of Debt Dogs From Hell may have snapped at my heels on a…
I saw the headline below and thought, what about those of us who walk younger dogs? – JDW Broken bones from falls on the rise among older dog walkers By LINDSEY TANNER AP Medical Writer Broken bones from falls while dog walking are on the rise among older U.S. adults and hip fractures are among…
Do not whine… Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.” ― Joan Didion, Blue Nights We are not idealized wild things.We are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we mourn our losses we also mourn, for better…
By Kathy Saunders for the Tampa Bay Times. When he introduced the animated film about the puppy Pip in October, the CEO of Southeastern Guide Dogs, Titus Herman, shared his dream with the theatre audience, saying, “We would love to get one million views.” As of this week, the four-minute, 3-D film been seen by…
Being in the minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the world, you were not mad. – George Orwell Q appeared to the crews of several Starfleet vessels and outposts during the 2360s and 2370s. As a consequence, all…