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A dog with a plan
Malcolm knew when to come in and when to leave About fifteen or sixteen years ago when we’d barely fenced in our land and begun construction of the house, a pack of six or seven stray dogs, among them an ingratiating curly-tailed orange mutt we named Malcolm, showed up each morning looking for food. Pretty…
The importance of being angry
Kristi Noem jolted me from political complacency Ever since Stew and I moved twenty years ago to a small ranch about a thousand miles south from the U.S. border, our reaction to political news from home has gradually morphed from outrage to resignation, or even worse, complacency. The absurd has become ho-hum. Plans to be…
Let it snow!
Did someone say “Let it snow”? Yesterday morning we woke up to dire news that New York City was about to be pummeled by a “beastly bomb cyclone causing widespread blizzard conditions,” according to a hyperventilating copywriter at CNN. Twenty inches of snow was expected in Central Park! Authorities were supposed to ban most travel…
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