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I was thrilled to wake up this morning and see that it was snowing. Last year we started getting blitzed in early December and I admit it has set [...]
November 30, 2011
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It snowed today while I was teaching and as soon as it started to fall from the sky many of my students began to groan. I asked them if I was the [...]
November 17, 2011
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I have always been interested in farming as well as other resource industries and Canada, as anyone familiar with this country’s history [...]
October 12, 2011
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Driving to and from Central Maryland you cross and recross a marked boundary (there are signs along the highway) known as the Chesapeake Bay [...]
September 24, 2011
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One of the great conceptual challenges of environmentalism is to try and connect local concerns with global ones. At times environmentalists have [...]
September 23, 2011
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I have a lot of affection for where I grew up and even though so many things have changed since I graduated high school, I still know the [...]
September 19, 2011
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Yesterday afternoon I sat outside a large bookstore on Rockville Pike and drank tea with my sister. Looking around me I saw the countless [...]
September 18, 2011
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There seems to be a widespread feeling in many western countries that old institutions and policies are failing. When I look around at the [...]
September 16, 2011
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When I drive down to visit my family I come through Pennsylvania and get to see a pretty substantial cross-section of the state. Depending on the [...]
September 15, 2011
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Right now I am trying to closely read and analyze political changes that were occurring in Canada during the late 1950s and early 1960s. I have [...]
September 10, 2011
