~the-last-word-on-no | Bookmarks (52)
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The Last Word On Nothing | Snapshot: Farewell, Stump Mountain
Last month I wrote about maps and dog walks and grief and stuff, and I illustrated...
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The Last Word On Nothing | Snapshot: The Penguins at Twilight
For the past month or so I have been in Argentina at Punta Tombo, a large...
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The Last Word On Nothing | What Happens in the Wild
I’ve been setting up wildlife cameras at natural pinch points and along trackways to see what’s...
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The Last Word On Nothing | The Canadian Canoe Museum
My father and I spent many of my childhood summers canoeing Ontario’s lake systems, counting moose...
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The Last Word On Nothing | What Could Go Wrong?
This post first appeared in 2016, but I started thinking about it today while I was...
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The Last Word On Nothing | A Brief Tribute to Karsten Heuer
One October morning in 2013, I walked into the Canmore offices of an organization called the...
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The Last Word On Nothing | Conversation: Richard & the Pillars of Creation
ANN: Richard Panek has just published a book called The Pillars of Creation. It’s about the...
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The Last Word On Nothing | In the Pocket
We (me, Pete, the baby) have had a wicked mystery cold going for 10 days and...
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The Last Word On Nothing | A Leaf on the Wind: On Election Terror and Golden Trees
The maple tree across the street is shivering. Just this morning, she’d stopped my breath with...
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The Last Word On Nothing | Cross-Country Skiing: A Halloween Tradition on Grand Mesa
Today (October 29), I went skiing for the first time this season. Yesterday I drove up...
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The Last Word On Nothing | Wish Ewe Were Here
Helen: Well, Cameron! Hello! Here we are again! I’m so glad we’re back two years after...
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The Last Word On Nothing | What the Kids Are Doing
The kids aren’t doing this any more. I miss it. I still have random people asking...
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The Last Word On Nothing | Released
She was in the narrow shed, on a high shelf, in a cardboard box advertising Dole...
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The Last Word On Nothing | Synchronicity
I believe. I don’t know in what exactly, but something is happening out there, gears and...
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The Last Word On Nothing | Voice Mails from the Great Beyond
On the morning my friend Kristina died, I listened and re-listened to the last voice mail...
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The Last Word On Nothing | Once Upon a Phylogeny
This post first appeared in 2013. My dancing shoes no longer have heels, but at least...
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The Last Word On Nothing | Snapshot – Er, SnapVideo: Post-Spawn
On a salmon walk last week, a friend and I encountered this battered, spawned-out chinook in...
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The Last Word On Nothing | The Evidence of the Senses
Bear with me on this, please and thank you, I’m trying to think something through. Amy...
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The Last Word On Nothing | Look up
On May 10, I leave my house in northern Washington state just after dawn. I drive...
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The Last Word On Nothing | Infantile Amnesia
This summer, my parents pulled out an ancient family VHS tape and we all gathered around...
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The Last Word On Nothing | I Did It Dad! I LOVE This!
I’d been pondering the consequences of modern self-chronicling when Facebook sent me its rendering of my...
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The Last Word On Nothing | Redrawing the map
When I was in 8th grade – I think it was 8th grade – we had...
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The Last Word On Nothing | Out of time
Call no man happy until he is dead. The phrase is a bit like an optical...
