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Tim Van Deelen

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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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Shut It Down!

On Easter Sunday 2018 at about 5:30 pm, The Clyde S VanEnkevort/Erie Trader dragged her six-ton anchor from somewhere near the southern end of the

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Cruelest Month

“April is the cruelest month,” says T. S. Elliot. I know that snippet, not because I am a literary scholar of any sort, or a

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From where we get life

I am pressed and angry. Public comments are due on the draft environmental impact statement (EIS) to permit Enbridge Energy Corporation to re-route its line

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Muskrat Love

I am writing this on Valentine’s Day, so I’ll just come right out and say (type) it. Muskrats don’t get enough love (and now if

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Yellow

Yellow is the color of bird-life royalty, the signature color of the warbler tribe. Warblers are small and fragile in hand, but they soar over

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January 6

On January 6, 2021, I sat in my COVID home office and watched the insurrection in real time. I had two livestreams open on my

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Sun

Advent began for me on that first Sunday about 9:20 CST. We sang much-loved “O Come, O Come Emmanuel” in our Covid-weary church and something

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