New Project

I am about to start guest blogging on Parkinson’s, I hope more amusingly than not, at the UNM Health Science Center’s new blog .  (My neurologist, who appears above, works there and has encouraged me to write for them). The link goes to Lauren Lewis’s excellent intro; the film above is not a bad intro …

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Short Pause for Learning New Stuff

If I am slow for the next couple of days please forgive me, as it is becoming uncomfortable to sit in this chair and it has been hard to type for a long time. I’m spending the next few days learning to use the iPad and training the dictation software. Wish me luck. I think …

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Science Links

I could publish a whole blog on that subject (as could Walter Hingley, who sends me many good ones, more than I have time to use). But then I could run one on books, or wildlife art or bird ancetsors or the Pleistocene– and have NO time… But some demand attention. I know, this short …

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Back again!

I have been neglecting the blog lately, for several reasons: mainly a sudden editorial job, which may result in my having three books with my name on  them in a calendar year; far too much  social life, with only the Spur Saint Patrick’s Day party planned; and an increasing amount of unanswered correspondence. I have …

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Three Thousand Posts!

Scribble, Scribble… Sometimes I feel like it too. Ages of a writer… (recent suggestions added since yesterday) Pre- Malaria: fat in Zim Writers with first books MANY years later

In Tearing Haste

As Patrick Leigh Fermor would have said… I have been insanely busy or maybe just dreadfully slow, as much or more from my mysterious endless roaming inflammatory arthritis- that- is- not- gout as anything specifically Parkinsonian (may publish a medical info- bleg on that soon). Have had the Denver trip, an Albuquerque one, the new …

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Photo Teasers

Still busy with work & scholarship and fun, not that these are necessarily incompatible or exclusive. A few hints– click to embiggen as always (the details are illuminating). I went into my library to find an accidental still life of several emerging subjects: And here are some artifacts pointing to the fascinating intersection of Fabre, …

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Crab Diaries

A new one for the blogroll: Crab Diaries, the serious, scary, witty, and laugh- out- loud funny journals of… well, she prefers to remain anonymous for now; let us just call her “My friend the Oncologist” and add, since she reveals this in a particularly funny post, that she is a (we met because she …

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Constant Apprentice

My dear friends Roseann and Jonathan Hanson, writers, scholars, adventurers, Arizonans, Africanists, connoisseurs of the good life, have (re)started a blog, The Constant Apprentice. I have the highest expectations. Here are a few images of them from my own files… I will let them explain the saber toothed skunk puppet…