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Bonfire Night
November 5, 2024 It's Bonfire Night back in the UK, where I grew up. I've been gone so long I don't know if and how it's still...
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Nov 5, 20242 min read
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A Political Cri de Coeur
October 29, 2024 It's exactly a week before the election. Is there pondering room in my mind for much else? So here's the script for a...
derekkannemeyer
Oct 29, 20242 min read
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Foxes
October 27, 2024 Till recently, I'd rarely seen a fox around our neighborhood. Though there are coyotes about, and maybe a fox could be...
derekkannemeyer
Oct 27, 20242 min read
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RLS & Other Ailments
October 23, 2024 So, Life, I was back seeing the eye doctor today, mostly a glaucoma check, but also about how well my cataract care’s...
derekkannemeyer
Oct 23, 20242 min read
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From a Hole in the Ground
October 18-19, 2024 Readers, there are questions I fear to ask, and would likely not ask here, were anyone reading this. I am of my...
derekkannemeyer
Oct 19, 20248 min read
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Wind in a Beech Tree
I so love the limerick form that I sometimes attempt to write serious work using it. Here's one that looks as if it dates from 2013. The...
derekkannemeyer
Oct 17, 20242 min read
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A Trees ’R’ Us Kid
October 16, 2024 Over on PALIMPSEST (go to the PNEWS tab and drop down), where I posted my first three blog entries before realizing I...
derekkannemeyer
Oct 16, 20243 min read
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Cover Images
October 15, 2024 I miss tennis. I haven't played in five or six years now; it got to where every other time I did, I strained a leg...
derekkannemeyer
Oct 15, 20242 min read
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The Art of the Limerick
I'm quite the lover of limericks. I churn them out for practice, and I read them for pleasure. Good ones do need to scan, which seems to...
derekkannemeyer
Oct 14, 20243 min read
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Notre cher professeur
October 13, 2024 Last week, out of nowhere, or more precisely Mali, I received a greeting card postmarked “Tombouctou.” The message, in a...
derekkannemeyer
Oct 13, 20245 min read
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So. A Blog?
October 12, 2024 So. A blog? As with everything else on this site, the first question is: am I doing this right? I'll add a photograph...
derekkannemeyer
Oct 12, 20241 min read
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