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How did I miss this? Evidently, the lowly nickel has been redesigned — several times — and I still never got one nor saw one. This spring, the reverse of the nickel was redesigned to feature the Indian Peace  [more...]

I'm so excited right now: there's a thunderstorm moving in to the Santa Clara Valley. Now, a few years ago, before I moved away from Washington, DC, this would not have been very significant.

Yesterday, I had an interview for a contract job at Sunset Publishing, which — among other things — publishes Sunset magazine, a kind of lifestyle mag for the west, along the lines of Southern Living. Their  [more...]