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Happy day --- yard stuff happening right outside my window!  The heat and drought of the past few years -- not to mention an only partially-functioning drip system discovered late last summer -- has …

Hump Day.  Middle of the week means same as beginning or end these days.  Beautiful morning, time for a walk as soon as I get to the bottom of my coffee mug.  I have days, weeks and months' worth of …

Wow, beyond depressed today.  I've been trying to analyze it all morning, and as far as I can discern I've most likely just hit the wall after two years of pain and six weeks of KILLER pain.  Everyth…

I've been working for a week on a piece for public consumption that isn't coming together, for whatever reasons.  At this point I'm frustrated and discouraged, two feelings I abhor.  So maybe it's ti…

During a recent nursery visit to replace trees and plants lost to the western Kansas drought and heat, the greenhouse owner snapped off a king-sized rose bloom and handed it to me, and magically, as …

If your birth year falls anywhere near mine, you probably heard your parents say at least once, “Shut the door, were you raised in a barn?”  Grown-ups saw it as a clever way to grab a child’s attenti…

It's a Thursday afternoon.  Three PM.  Isn't there something pressing I should be concerned with?  Some deadline that awaits my attention?  A task that requires my immediate and dedicated time and en…

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The American Civil Liberties Union is defending its claim that a new Kansas law restricting insurance coverage for abortion discriminates against women, urging a federal judge to reject a request by …