16 Nov
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I have loved Sandra Tsing Loh since I first heard her on This American Life. Her essay, “Bad Sex with Bud Kemp” is a classic. Loh describes her friendship with the kindly Bud, how they knew each other in college and how they stayed friends. Other members of their clique drifted away but [...]
09 Nov
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I just finished reading Rising Tide by John M. Barry. It tells the story of the Mississippi Flood of 1927. Despite having traveled a fair amount over this country of ours, I never thought much about the enormity of the Mississippi River before reading this book. The Mississippi River Basin stretches from [...]
Monthly Archives: November 2008