hooleydd
Jun 5, 20213 min read
Why I Walk Under a Full Moon in June
I still have that little Navajo blanket and look at it occasionally, touching the geometric pattern, important symbols in Navajo myth. A...
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hooleydd
May 24, 20212 min read
What’s That About Lazy People and Free Money?
Watching him poke and pull at the hinges of our garage door I wondered whether he’d cashed his stimulus check yet—and what he did with...
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hooleydd
May 8, 20213 min read
And Then My Heart With Pleasure Fills
Some people have a preternatural memory when it comes to flower names. I have a friend (a little unassuming lady who wears sweaters with...
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hooleydd
Mar 13, 20212 min read
Fowl play: Judging Meghan and Woody
Humans have a lot in common with chickens, including an unreliable character. Even Shakespeare had something to say about our shared...
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hooleydd
Feb 28, 20213 min read
Getting to Know Each Other Again After Covid
Some people thrived this past year during the pandemic, barely noticing the lock-downs, shut-downs, and shout-downs between the maskers...
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hooleydd
Jan 17, 20213 min read
What We Don’t Know About Our Friends and Neighbors
Bea walked over to the table and picked up two large, clear plastic bags each containing a colorful quilt in them. “Look what I’ve been...
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hooleydd
Dec 31, 20202 min read
Reading about the Universe on New Year’s Eve
It occurred to me that I’d never given my younger self much credit for wisdom. I’ve always thought wisdom and the knowledge that...
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hooleydd
Nov 21, 20203 min read
Let’s Travel to Another Place…
I’ve been living in the Land of the Sick—and I’m ready to move. To begin with, I’m sick with some kind of non-Covid throat infection,...
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hooleydd
Oct 25, 20203 min read
Poetry and Electing an Honest Man
Most people are familiar with Robert Frost’s poetry and particularly his most famous, “The Road Not Taken.” When I was in high school I...
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hooleydd
Oct 17, 20202 min read
That Thing We Have in Common with Caterpillar Moths
As Dillard describes it, caterpillar moths like to line up behind a lead caterpillar whose role it is to seek out pine needles, a primary...
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hooleydd
Sep 27, 20202 min read
I’m Afraid of the Air…
Covid, according to the latest from the scientific community, won’t die down until next year some time. The summer wildfires in our...
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hooleydd
Sep 27, 20203 min read
South Africa Comes to an Idaho Farm
“The jackal went streaking past me while I held the irrigation pipe!” Christopher Robin told me, as wide-eyed and innocent as the...
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hooleydd
Sep 12, 20203 min read
The Old South Can’t Solve the New Covid
Recently, both the University of Georgia and the University of Alabama, unlike other colleges who’ve gone online, are dealing with...
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hooleydd
Aug 30, 20203 min read
Reality TV Has the Answers
What can I say? Last summer at this time I was reading a prize-winning book about brain chemistry, and this summer I’m into fat and...
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hooleydd
Jul 19, 20203 min read
Science Doesn’t Care About Your Feelings
It was a family mystery I attempted to solve several years ago when I visited ninety-five year old Uncle Clay. Clay was the only one...
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hooleydd
May 31, 20202 min read
I’ll Cry Tomorrow…
Today, alcoholism is classified as a disease, and a certain segment of alcoholics prefer to manage their addiction as opposed to fully...
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hooleydd
Apr 12, 20203 min read
Remembering an Easter Story During the Coronavirus Plague
The Flannel Graph board was mounted on an easel, and as Sister Gibson recounted the Bible story, she’d press paper cut-out Bible figures...
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hooleydd
Mar 29, 20203 min read
Retreating from Coronavirus
Circle the wagons! We’re in retreat! This wagon (me) has been circling and circling my living room the past couple weeks, building...
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hooleydd
Mar 15, 20203 min read
Corona virus, Shopping Sprees, and Misadventures with a Bat
“What’s with people hoarding toilet paper?” my daughter asked me over the phone. She’d called to check up on her dad. “I’m not sure. ...
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hooleydd
Oct 2, 20193 min read
I’m Going Back to the Plough
Before the coronavirus raised its ugly head and scared everyone away from the city, I lived there part-time while I taught at a local...
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