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Posts published in September 2010

Summertime Spectacles

It was a warm and wonderful summer that ended last week with the Labor Day holiday. I usually avoid sum­mertime extravaganzas big enough to require…

Sports Notes

Last week I wrote that Nate Davis was the most physi­cally gifted young QB in the entire NFL and that it would be a blunder…

Raising Coyote Dam

Last night representatives from the local water agen­cies met to hear a presentation by the Corps of Engineers on its plans for the Coyote Dam…

Bach On The Accordion? High Plains Trudgery

An increasing number of drawing-room revolutionar­ies have begun to discuss their strategies to overthrow that despot, the musical score. Rather than treat the notes on…

Fog & Tomatoes

Just a couple of days ago I sat sweltering in the heat, feeling like even a sundress was too much clothing for the temperature of…

Return To Haiti

(Wednesday, September 8, 2010) — Today I fly to Haiti. In some way I feel like I am going home. For three months I called…

Art Rant

Books “Rae’s eyes were red and swollen. They sat on the couch side by side, in silence, waiting for the doctor.” from Crooked Little Heart…

Rough Notes & Random Thoughts

It was unintentional, but I’m happy to have taken the summer off from writing my blog for theAVA.com. I know some of you feel the…

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