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Tim Van Deelen

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September Rain

Our Village President called and asked about endangered species. We knew each other because our sons were soccer teammates. The Village wanted to build a

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The Terrace

My day’s highlight was lunch with a former grad student. We caught up on her classmates and mutual friends, departmental politics, her life now. Their

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Impractical Love

Curse you, Rev. Jonker! Well not really, but we were coached to open provocatively. Still, it’s 3:34 am and I am re-listening to his sermon.

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Bluegills

We knew the same people, Nick and I. Not so much in the actual sense although we both know natural resource types in the north.

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Great Bear

Humanity’s oldest story is written in the stars. It’s there in the summer night sky, welcome and cool. For most of us, it’s there in

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52 Snakes

A buoyant e-mail: “Fifty-two snakes!” My herpetologist friend is an expert. She’s got a thing for massasauga rattlesnakes. She’s doing a dissertation on them. Not

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More of the Same

I had my Twelve piece ready to go early this week. I had it done by Tuesday noon, photos and all, which is unusual for

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Lawn Care (less)

The severest form of peer pressure here in the ‘burbs is to reach Sunday afternoon and be the last on the street with an unmowed

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Big Show

Standing outside in my socks in a 25 mph wind and sipping pea soup out of a coffee cup was probably gilding the lily but

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