The Blog Party will be at Reid’s in Parker, CO, east of Denver, the weekend of June 11. Regular blogging will then resume. I couldn’t have quit if I wanted to with all the response! Health continues iffy: PD under control at the moment, but apparently a bad case of spinal stenosis is next on …
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It is hard to sum up one’s life so far even in seven posts. I hope you have enjoyed the ride… Taik’s mother was 14when she had her in Almaty- and lived past 2O. Turkmeni tazis make old bones…
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Kariba. I got killer Malaria there, and have never since been so fat (with those baggy linen trousers and horn- rimmed glasses, I look like Redmond O’Hanlon!), or so healthy. 1994 or 5, s. AZ. Doug and I have aged some, but Jack has grown up, and now has a four year old son of …
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Russ Chatham, artist, writer, entrepreneur, who published Q the book, with my parents in Newburyport, Mass, around 88 Libby with Vadim Gorbatov, who among other things, is responsible for most of my covers, FREE, on Lee Henderson’s ranch, where he sketched the quail represented in the print below. Later at the Spur, he put down …
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John Carlson, my best man in my FIRST marriage to Libby (we didn’t get divorced in between). Who but a biologist bor in Eastern MT would use his limited baggage allowance to Antarctica to pack a tux to the home colony? Read his blog at Prairie Ice… To the left, Aldo Leopold; center, Frederick “Hammy” …
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Not just the blog, but selected life. Enjoy, enigmas, in- jokes, and all… My old school, J d’A (fomerly the Slater and then the Flint mansion… You know, Jeanne d’Arc Academy, with one of these in every room. John Davila at the chickenfights, ’84 “Trouble ahead..” “The Lady in Red THERE”S A CHICKEN!!!!”
A Little About Dan and Jule Mannix, (and Saul Bellow, and Hitch, and Bad Bob, and George Higgins: Post #3,999…)
Dan Mannix was a popular magazine and book writer in the fifties who was a formative influence on many naturalists who grew up then. His most popular if not necessarily best book was A Sporting Chance, which is in my “Book of Books”, about such things as falconry and ferrets and fishing with cormorants, all …
Maynard Dixon Sketch
As Steve mentioned in an earlier post, Connie and I drove to Santa Fe on April 9 to attend (RockStar) Helen Macdonald’s book signing. We arrived mid-afternoon, checked into our hotel and went to the Plaza to kill some time before we went to pick up Steve and Libby and go see Helen. We went …