I know there are other things that we should probably be talking about right now, like the “wall of moms” in Portland or the flood of disinformation headed our way about vote-by-mail, but I feel, for the sake of my sanity, the I need to step back, and write about other stuff for a while. […]
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Mark’s Covid Diary… July 26, 2020
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Mark’s Covid Diary…. May 17
A week or so ago, I tried something different here, and just gave myself a set amount of time to write about things going on in my life, without giving too much thought as to what was happening in the outside world. Well, as I really enjoyed the exercise, I thought that I’d try it […]
Posted in Mark's Life, Media, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged Abraham Lincoln, Alro, AM 1700, artwork, butterfly, Clementine, comedy, corruption, COVID-19, dawn redwood, Donald Trump, Fathers Day, ferns, gardening, graffiti, humor, Huron River, Inspector General, kale, Ma Florian, Mike Pompeo, pandemic, public health, redbud, Saturday Six Pack, Secretary of State, Steve Linick, trees, volunteering, white oak 23 Comments
Ideas to Steal: The Huron Hammock
Arlo and I were walking around the elevated path that runs along the edge of Frog Island Park this evening, looking down toward the river, and talking about fish, when we noticed a young woman sleeping in a hammock that she’d tied up between two trees, just a few feet off the water. It looked […]
Posted in Mark's Life, OCD, Ypsilanti Also tagged Arlo, Frog Island Park, Huron River, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, jealousy, pod people, seed pods 9 Comments