Happy Birthday to You (Two)

Since it’s an orange week around here (scroll down through earlier posts — you’ll see what I mean!), I thought an orange sunrise might be an appropriate way to wish my oldest daughter and my…

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Don Domanski and metaphor

I’ve just read Canadian poet Don Domanski’s Ralph Gustafson lecture Poetry and the Sacred, published as a beautiful hand-stitched chapbook. As I was recently thinking about metaphor while reading Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies and Dickens’…

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Orange for the Boyfriend

I thought I could kill two birds with one stone today, and show you the new orangeness in my wardrobe (indeed, other than my Havaiianas this would be the only orangeness my closet holds) AND…

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Not a Shy Orange At All!

So Girlcook was sure she knew what orange surprise I had for today’s post (see yesterday’s post comments) but she was wrong . . . the orange-ness that girl’s thinking of is for a future…

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Orange you glad . . . ?

Hot, dry weather here, day after remarkable day. Hot enough that I don’t like to leave home, where the breeze off the water keeps the heat tolerable, and where we can cool off once the…

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