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I dread opening my eyes, only to see that the number of dead has risen higher and higher every time I look. More and more. Higher and higher. It’s numbing. My eyes are glazed and my brain is struggling to  [more...]

The Bay Area is hazy today. In San Jose this is unusual, the skies are usually clear here with a little smog now and then; but today there’s haze everywhere you look because of two big fires. One is south of here  [more...]

Sad news — Martha, the bald eagle, has gone. She was euthanized yesterday. Martha and George, her mate, were the unofficial mascots of the Wilson Bridge construction back home in DC. They lived on an island next  [more...]