~the-last-word-on-no | Bookmarks (52)
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The Last Word On Nothing | My Brilliant (ADHD) Friend
My dear friend “P” is a bit of a nut. She’s always doing a million things...
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The Last Word On Nothing | Something I Ate This Week
Here’s a picture of something I found and put in my mouth. You get to guess...
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The Last Word On Nothing | Spirit of Rage and Madness
It was a warm July evening, and we left the living room window open so the...
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The Last Word On Nothing | Weather the Weather
Yesterday afternoon, all at once, my son and I started to feel a little sluggish. For...
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The Last Word On Nothing | Mustelid Madness
A couple of weeks ago, during a backpacking trip in Wyoming’s Wind River Range, Elise and...
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The Last Word On Nothing | Beth Willman Really Does Have a Galaxy
Since this was first published in August 17, 2012, Beth Willman’s galaxy has probably been identified...
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The Last Word On Nothing | Guest Post: Where Do Cicadas Go When They Die?
The cicadas started scaling dense soil while I was in another state, hundreds of miles away...
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The Last Word On Nothing | Snapshot: Shiny (Non-Alive) Fish
Sunday morning. Early for a Sunday morning, which is to say not that early. Maybe 8...
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The Last Word On Nothing | Animal/ Vegetable/ Ecosystem/ Nuisance/ Pet
The round things in this picture of clear water aren’t rocks. They are little balls of...
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The Last Word On Nothing | Is It Grief? It Feels Like Grief.
My dad died last year at age 94, his death a blessing for him and, while...
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The Last Word On Nothing | Stars are Born
Last week, I crabbed over papers at a late-night kitchen table while my very pregnant step...
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The Last Word On Nothing | The Makapansgat Cobble
In 1925, teacher Wilfred Eitzman found a cobble—a rock slightly bigger than a pebble, the weight...
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The Last Word On Nothing | Green
Last week I went sailing for the first time since I was a kid. It was...
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The Last Word On Nothing | I STILL Wish I Could Have One
OMG this saw whet owl. But it belongs in the forest, so I will leave it there....
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The Last Word On Nothing | Baltimore in August
I continue to have nothing good to say about Baltimore in August. In fact, if anything...
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The Last Word On Nothing | Voice Mails From the Great Beyond
This post first ran in 2021, but I’ve been thinking of it a lot lately —...
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The Last Word On Nothing | Snapshot: My Pothos, My Muse
Early in the pandemic, in the spring of 2020, a neighbor was moving out in a...
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The Last Word On Nothing | What’s in a (gene) name
Last autumn, Microsoft made a subtle change to its Excel spreadsheets, one which flew under the...
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The Last Word On Nothing | SNAPSHOT: This Horseshoe Crab
I was in Assateague, Virginia, some weeks back, doing the summer beach thing. The wild horses,...
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The Last Word On Nothing | Where We First Blew Up the Bomb
This week is the 79th anniversary of two nuclear weapons used on a human populace. In...
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The Last Word On Nothing | What to expect when you’re transforming
I’m not on TikTok, so I had to be told about pregnancy nose. Whereas in the...
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The Last Word On Nothing | Small
This week, a mourning dove has started to build a nest in the walnut tree outside...
