Category: play
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The Porcupine Mountains
I’m back home from a three-day hiking trip to the Porcupine Mountains in the upper peninsula of Michigan. I left Madison last Sunday morning, hiked the back country Monday and Tuesday, and returned home this afternoon. I didn’t camp in the back country. Looking back now, I kind of regret not doing that, but this… Read.
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IAT Brooklyn segment
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East Star Lake 9-15-2024 — 9-18-2024
I drove up to Star Lake on Sunday, September 15th. I left home a little after nine o’clock in the morning and arrived at the East Star Lake State Park at quarter past one in the afternoon. I had booked a site at West Star Lake State Park, on the other side of the lake,… Read.
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red to green
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bike switch
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IAT Lodi Marsh segment
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IAT Cross Plains segment
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books galore
“Spook Street” is the fourth novel in the ‘Slow Horses’ series of spy thrillers by Mick Herron. The story circles around David Cartwright, a top-tier spook of the Cold War era, as he slides into senility at about the same time that an unknown agency decides to take him out of the picture. I like… Read.
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books books books
It took me a while, but I finally finished reading “Lord Jim” by Joseph Conrad. And when I say “it took me a while,” I mean it took me years. As in, decades. I’m pretty sure I tried to read it for the first time forty years ago after I read “Heart of Darkness.” Probably… Read.
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first lines
It’s a thing on social media right now for creators to quote the first lines from their favorite books. Trouble with this trend, it seems to me, is they’re all reading the first lines from the books that will obviously get them clicks, so almost every listcicle includes the first line from a Harry Potter… Read.
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