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melissa39316
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Rolling in dead things
June 27, 2014 It happened again. I turned the corner onto a path in the Fingal Wildlife Management Area just in time to spot our golden...
melissa39316
- 1 day ago
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O, Say! Can you see Canada?
July 4, 2014 To celebrate their fiftieth wedding anniversary, my parents, my husband and I and my brother Peter, traveled to London,...
melissa39316
- 1 day ago
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Little ****
Jul 11, 2014 When Tenney, the second of my parents’ two Great Danes, bought the farm, my parents decided that it would be best, given...
melissa39316
- 1 day ago
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Beached whales and Nellievision
July 18, 2014 Nearly thirty years ago I found myself in Newtown, Connecticut, celebrating the Fourth of July with some second cousins...
melissa39316
- 1 day ago
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Viva the Tidewater
July 25, 2014 This question has long flummoxed me: “How can I self-identify as both a Southerner and an American and still find the...
melissa39316
- 1 day ago
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Balls
Aug. 15, 2014 I do not do balls. Not soccer balls. Not footballs. Not softballs. Not baseballs. Not basketballs. Not bocce balls. Not...
melissa39316
- 1 day ago
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See Spot run!
Aug. 22, 2014 I am very territorial, which is to say: I like my spot. And when I say “like”, I mean really, really like, as in, should...
melissa39316
- 1 day ago
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Parakeets and me
Aug. 19, 2014 I kept parakeets for years, beginning with Little Bugger, a green budgie who was my parents’ sixteenth birthday gift to...
melissa39316
- 1 day ago
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Fear of thunder
Sept. 12, 2014 When I was thirteen, I used to dog sit for my brother and sister-in-law’s terrier during thunder storms. She was so...
melissa39316
- 1 day ago
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Double exposure
Sept. 16, 2014 Summers were brutal in the Piedmont when I was a girl; I suspect they still are. Because my family spent the months of...
melissa39316
- 1 day ago
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Quantum physics for dummies
Sept. 26, 2014 Today is the Autumnal Equinox 2014. Actually, today is Monday and this post is scheduled to be published on Friday so, by...
melissa39316
- 2 days ago
- 3 min
Clan of the Dog People
Oct. 10, 2014 When National Geographic’s Genographic Project was all shiny and new, my husband Ken and I joined 678,632 other...
melissa39316
- 2 days ago
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My mother. The conversation continues.
Oct. 17, 2014 On Oct. 14, 2005, my spectacular mother, Martha Nell Hardy, died. I was with her when she passed away, for which I am...
melissa39316
- 2 days ago
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The Year of the Cockroach
Oct. 24, 2014 I In 1978 I had a one-year-long junior fellowship at the Dumbarton Oaks Centre for Byzantine Studies in the Georgetown...
melissa39316
- 2 days ago
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Halloween
Oct. 31, 2014 When I was a kid, Halloween ranked right up there with Christmas as the best holiday ever. You got to dress up in costumes...
melissa39316
- 2 days ago
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Sayonara, Jian Ghomeshi
Nov. 7, 2014 For non-Canadians and Americans who do not listen to NPR, Jian Ghomeshi is . . . was a popular radio host with the Canadian...
melissa39316
- 2 days ago
- 3 min
Beware lost boys
Nov. 14, 2014 On October 22, 2014 a lone gunman, jihad on the brain, murdered a young reservist standing honour guard at the Canadian...
melissa39316
- 2 days ago
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Pretty feet
Nov. 21, 2014 When I was a teenager growing up on the Unto These Hills Actors Compound, our choreographer, no lover of the ladies, used...
melissa39316
- 4 days ago
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Enjoying ill health
Nov. 28, 2014 My mother took a dim view of people who, in her words, "enjoyed ill health,” which meant that, any time I sought to be...
melissa39316
- 4 days ago
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Will the real thugs please stand up
Dec. 5, 2014 Where to begin in discussing the murders of Michael Brown and Eric Gardner? I am beyond angry and, were it not for the fact...