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• A cautionary tale

  April 13, 2025

  In this day and age potentially fearsome creatures have now been designed and produced; the ramifications of which are still not fully realized. This is not an entirely new thing, as humans have domesticated and bred all sorts of creatures over millennia for various purposes. The main difference ...

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• Strolling in the deer zone….

  April 12, 2025

  The "Deer Zone" is a county park I discovered last fall.  It is about three miles or so from my house and features a trail that winds thru a heavily wooded area and a field behind a housing development.  I've been doing my walking here at least a few times a week since late last…

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• The return of resurrected monsters

  April 11, 2025

  If you have been watching any news lately, quite you have likely heard about the supposed dire wolves that were genetically re-created. The dire wolf was an ice age monster, a canine predator that grew larger than any modern grey wolf. Early human migrants to North America would have been very fa...

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• Sleepless nights and dark dreams…

  April 4, 2025

  Last night was a nearly sleepless one, which are unfortunately becoming a more common occurrence now that menopause is upon me. Imagine being tired, yet being bolt wide awake... My husband gave up and made for the spare bedroom around 2 am, and then I laid there for a while and listened to the th...

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• Looking to the future

  April 3, 2025

  Now that things are relatively quiet in my daily life, I've gotten to thinking about certain future events. One of these is of course my roller coaster trip that will take place in about six weeks. This will be my first foray to an amusement park this year and will encompass both Kings Dominion a...

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• The folly of extreme worry

  March 30, 2025

  Lately I've been thinking about what I've learned in the past 20 some odd years with regards to the defeat of the terrible phobia I once suffered. I meticulously documented my struggle in imagery and writing back then (including having a journal here at OD), and I even kept track of and made copi...

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• You don’t know what you have until it is gone…

  March 28, 2025

  There is an old saying that probably most people have heard before. “The good that men do dies with them, but the evil lives on and on...” or something to that effect. This of course reflects the human tendency to remember negative things far more intensely than neutral, or perhaps even joyous th...

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• Remembrance and rebirth

  March 26, 2025

  Well, today was the day. One year ago to this day Baltimore's Key Bridge was destroyed early in the morning darkness. There has been even more content about this showing up on various local (and some national) media. Some of this concerns memorials for the victims, while others discuss blame for ...

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• Since you’ve been gone

  March 26, 2025

  A full year has gone by, and here we are again at this time when the seasonal parts of the Northern hemisphere began to come back to life. Crocuses are in full bloom, and so are many early daffodils. Grass has begun to green up in places, and I've already started two container gardens with…

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