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High Lonesome

High Lonesome
Location
Southwest desert and mountains, U.S.
Birthday
June 06
Title
Hey, could you ...?
Company
Sometimes
Bio
Pastor, maker of tents, writer, naturalist, mother to many, wife to one, woman of the sandwich generation.

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MAY 20, 2011 1:13PM

The end of the world as I know it

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Do I fear Armageddon? All the time, although probably not like you imagine.

I was a child in the 1960s, raised on civil defense drills and assurances of mutual destruction. I don't remember whether I really believed the Soviet Union  was the Evil Empire. I don't remember whether… Read full post »

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JANUARY 11, 2011 2:58PM

Guns + X = Tucson

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Like several other posters here, I grew up with guns. My father was a sportsman; when he died last summer there were perhaps 20 sporting guns to divvy up, plus some assorted others. I have, locked up, a .22 Colt Woodsman pistol, a .22 Ruger Bearcat revolver, a Browning… Read full post »

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JUNE 24, 2009 2:28PM

Bigotry with a barbecue fork

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 The house, 40-some years ago

We live in an old house in an old town that was never, by anyone’s estimation, rich. We don’t have fancy Victorians; we have functional homes — err, sort of.

Our house was originally a one-story L-shaped frame house. At… Read full post »

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JUNE 23, 2009 1:52PM

Sharp little bones all their own

Bandera Penstemon0527091 A postcard for a sister-mom

Yesterday a poster here shared some frustration over her children. The response was extremely supportive, except for one person who said something that must surely have felt to the original poster like, “It’s all your fault; you’re inadequate… Read full post »

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MAY 22, 2009 1:37PM

Porch sitting and passings

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My husband and I received a note today from a man who just buried his wife of 60 years. Instead of the standard note thanking us for cards, flowers, food and prayers, this one just says, “Thank you for eating cherries with me when I needed a friend.”

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APRIL 27, 2009 3:56PM

Swine flu: I remember hantavirus (UPDATED - long, factual)

I was very near the center of the 1993 outbreak of a "new" disease, hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, in the Four Corners, so I'm not quite as prone to panic over the swine flu as many people seem to be. Here are excerpts from a presentation I sometimes gave to a university… Read full post »