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https://brentolson.substack.com/p/faroes/comments I drew the curtain on the bedroom window and saw a dangerous green mountain, a few...

I bought new boots, comfortable ones. Then I discovered that if you wear a pair of boots for thirty hours or so, they’re not THAT...

Sunday night around dusk, I walked along the edge of our slough. The plat books call it “Olson Lake,” but after a couple years of...

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"What are you doing tomorrow?” I asked. My wife replied, “I don’t know, nothing special. What do you have in mind?” “I thought we could...

I went to the doctor last week with about four issues I wanted checked out. I like to store things up, so I don’t feel like I’m wasting...

Memorial Day. I had a friend tell me once that no one does Memorial Day like a small town. I don’t know if that’s true since I've never...

Climate change was bad enough, but now I need to worry about gravity as well. It’s getting stronger. A lot stronger. About 35 years ago,...