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Archive for June, 2011

Against the Rosemont Mine

Inside Tucson Business dot com is taking a poll in which people can vote yes or no on supporting the Rosemont mine and leave a comment. The Rosemont Mine is not the proposed mine in the Patagonia Mountains that I’ve written about before. Rosemont (lovely name for such an ugly thing) is one proposed by [...]

MINE UPDATE

People often ask me what’s happening with the mine that threatens Patagonia, and since we are at a critical first step in the National Environmental Policy Act [NEPA] process of trying to keep the mine from coming, I thought I’d write something here about it. At this point you may be able to participate only [...]

Half-Toast

You’ve heard of half-baked, right? Well, I just discovered half-toasted. Yes, I inadvertently discovered it after forgetting a slice of bread on my kitchen counter for about 3 hours. This is summer in Arizona, you know, and due to low winter rainfall and in fact no rain at all for months, we are definitely in [...]

SATAN’S LIBRARY

I wrote this long ago, April 17, 2006 to be precise. I’m posting it now because I found it on a recent trip back to Georgia and a lot of my friends haven’t seen it. ~~~Janice * * * SATAN’S LIBRARY I never thought that my mother-in-law might consider me weird—a poor housekeeper yes, a [...]

Memorial Day, 2011

I appreciated the Memorial Day comments of my f(F)riend Ellen on FaceBook. In response: I’ve been learning over the past years to respect soldiers for the choices they’ve made, as I hope they will/would respect mine, even though we disagree about the wisdom of those choices. Standing with Women in Black at the UGA Arch, [...]

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