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Posts published in May 2010

Four Seasons In Hell (With apologies to Rimbaud)

There are many real estate nightmares in the naked city. This is only one of them. — Ralph Wein­stein * * * Malibu, California — Call her Joni. She’s 75. She’s my father’s widow, his…

Farm To Farm

Some gardening friends have been enjoying sugarsnap peas for several weeks, they say. They planted the peas in October. I planted peas in April and the plants are still only six inches tall. On Saturday…

Look Ma, I am a kite!

I had been promising something fun and the weather had cleared.  This is going to be great, I tell myself.  I grabbed a hat for me and a couple for him, thinking, "It won't be…

‘Seven Days in May’ Redux

Picture a vast hole being dug into a mesa at Los Alamos Nuclear Laboratories that will be 125 feet deep and three football fields in area.Now, imagine it being filled in to make one vast…

How to build a robot suit:

I returned from a climbing trip in Joshua Tree with two very special rocks for my almost 4 year old.  He wanted  a robot suit so he was understandably a bit unimpressed.  So we went…

The Howard Belkamp File, Part 1

Edited by Peggy Shaw HOW AN ALIAS IS BORN: THE HOWARD BELKAMP STORY Back in the early 80s, I understood there was a story that needed to be told, and I would have to be…

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