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Tim Van Deelen

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Eye-white and froth

“Read this,” she said. So I did. She’s our professional writer and her critiques of my offerings for my biweekly RJ blogging gig sting me

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Stonington

Distance hides it a bit but not too much. I checked the rearview and braked hard to turn south on Forest Road 513. An afterthought,

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School Buses

Reliable reporting (United Nations, National Public Radio) is that 30,000 Palestinian civilians (mostly women and children) have been killed by Israeli soldiers in Gaza since

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Blood on the snow

I woke up all sorts of lazy and dull. They were back from their walk, these two grad students. One worked for me years ago

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Feral

They ran the brush-hog late along the edge of the prairie. Winter-rank fuzzy stubble stems bristled from a beating off with a dull blade. An

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Monsters

I was going to be so productive. I was going to get ahead on things

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Transitioning Away

The big news on the creation-care front was that we, in North America, woke up to newly-revealed final language in the COP28’s First Global Stocktake

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Heron brain

What do you suppose you’d find, to root around in that walnut-sized brain for a while? It’s a pathetic nod to self-care I suppose, but

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