Disclaimer: chiggers are not actually insects as the title suggests, but arachnids, and insects are not a kingdom, but a class. I personally classify them all together into one creepy kingdom of small mechanical exoskeletal pests up to no good. They wear their skeletons on the outside and inside are nothing but goop. They bite […]
Miscellaneous
July 16-20, 2018 “Inscrutable, argent agent of the crepuscular” — To what does Rebecca refer? Find out in the poem she wrote this week. Guest Robin Mejia reminds us that child abduction by the state has a history, and in El Salvador the legacy has been an enduring solidarity among victims and the equally enduring […]
On November 14, 2017, about 25 women gathered in a large white community center in Morazon, a remote district in eastern El Salvador along the country’s border with Honduras. The meeting was in second floor room with a polished wood ceiling and windows overlooking tiled roofs and trees, some full of flowers. The women sat […]
July 9 – 13, 2018 “Leaf hoppers, previously unnoticeable, now erupt in little clouds as one moves through the grass. There are definitely more butterflies. Neighborhood cats delight in stalking through our miniature veldt, like tortoiseshell lions.” Through neglect, Emma makes herself a little paradise. Cameron worries about the missing California clouds. In the skies […]
I’ve been a bit of a Facebook addict for years. The pictures of pets! The interesting articles! But, when stressful things are happening in the world, I find that Facebook mostly exists for me to soak up everyone else’s panic about current events, like a human anxiety sponge. During a particularly stressful week last month, […]
July 2 – 6, 2018 I start the week with a bad thought: the part of your mind that’s the general contractor, the project manager, the executive? It’s good at making decisions, not so good at knowing when the poor idiot carrying them out is splatted on the ground weeping. On a stormy night, Jessa […]
We’ve been living in a tinderbox, precipitation at an all-time low, summer temperatures unusually high, snowpack paltry. The ground feels as if it’ll ignite just from looking at it. A few days ago a blaze started near Basalt, Colorado, a couple rivers east of where I live, forcing rapid evacuations. It started from tracer bullets […]
Even if you develop hives at the sight of the words “bitcoin” and “blockchain”, you probably couldn’t help noticing the shouty news the past week. Bitcoin is down! Bitcoin is slightly up! Way down! Little bit up again. As LWON went to press, Bitcoin was either on the verge of another runaway valuation that would climb […]
