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Exile
From the seeding of soil microbesto the trigger of volcanoeswe terraform and warm exile.Our bodies wake to new rhythmsof Martian seasons, blue shadowsand whirling dust devil danger.For our new life is made of Mars.It’s in the green cellwalls of plantsand the red blood of our bodies.It is our new, mythic heavenwhere God never walks, never…
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Investment advice from a poor person–you have been warned
I think I’ve mentioned previously that I read The Economist. I’m interested in the world of business, but not inclined to dip my toe in it–an annoying pub bar expert, that’s me. You don’t have to believe me, but I saw the financial crisis coming. I couldn’t understand what these credit derivative swaps and similar…
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Old Favorites
Some mystery novels, like Margery Allingham’s, seem never to have gone out of print. Others, however, are much harder to come by. I used to haunt second hand book sales, but I have a suspicion that this once rich hunting ground has been picked over by people snatching up cheap books to sell online. Nothing…
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Shades of Green
I like photos snatched from the garden.
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Maxwell’s Revenge by M J Trow
My little whinge the other day about the predominance of series novels was more than a bit unfair. There are any number of series well worth devouring every book. Dana Stabenow’s Alaskan mysteries spring to mind, and then, there’s the survival-of-the-maddest British high school murders from M J Trow’s Maxwell series. Trow rattles along at…