Wizened After the Fall

Putative truths, fanciful theories, not very credible inferences, and sundry episodes in this American's life

Saturday, July 17, 2010

Treachery in the Wild

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My wife was on maternity leave with our first-born, and I was hired to help fill the void of her absence at the nature center in central ...
Sunday, June 27, 2010

Hubert

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Everybody stopped what they were doing when Hubert came to town. Memories of my meeting this cavalier German in Corvallis, OR, and a crazy r...
Friday, June 25, 2010

Penance in a Two-Room Carriage House

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Saturday January 31, 2004 The kids are with their mother, and I am in a two-room carriage house, separated, alone. The pipes have fro...
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Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Strength Made Perfect in Weakness

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CINCINNATI March 31 Judge Charles J. Kubicki, Jr. pronounced sentence this morning on Anthony W. Kirkland in the capital offense case invo...
Sunday, March 21, 2010

Unsung Achievements

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This past Friday, I attended a talk sponsored by Fermilab National Laboratory in Aurora, IL. Speaking that evening was a 2008 Nobel Laureate...
Sunday, March 7, 2010

On the One Year Anniversary of Esme’s Passing

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The man who killed Esme Kenney precisely one year ago this hour is on trial for his life. Meanwhile, there is a memorial service in the Quak...
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Tracing the History of Civilization to a Pair of Bumps on a Bone

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The plan for a lesson is often written in the heat of the moment right before delivering it. I’m a science teacher who teaches in a high sch...
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Raised a military dependent, attended three high schools; matriculated at Oregon State, falling in love with misty coniferous forests; started backpacking in the Sierra at 14; perennial student, finally graduating with degrees in Botany, Religious Studies, and Science Education; perennial collector of free graduate credit offered to teachers; taught in Oregon, California, and Illinois; son 19, daughter 24; teacher of science, the organizing principle being that matter interacts within systems of varying scale, which cycle and recycle matter as energy passes through them
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