out and about
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A baseball first for me: Smoke delay
I have been going to Major a league Baseball games since 1974. And I have never been in a smog or smoke delay. Till now. The smoke from the Canadian wildfires caused a nearly 45-minute delay on the afternoon getaway game between the San Diego Padres and the Pittsburgh Pirates at PNC Park in Pittsburgh.… Continue reading
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Smoke, wildfires now and a quarter-century ago
The otherworldly smoke and health threats this week from plumes from Canadian wildfires — and the unreal photos from New York City and Hudson Valley, among other places — make it difficult for me to reconcile the places I used to live with the Mars-like skies of now. I can’t imagine what it must be… Continue reading
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Pollen so thick it piles up
The pollen season has reached a crescendo. And I am sniffling, coughing and sneezing through it. I have been on allergy medicine for three months, ever since I went to Florida in late February. (OK, I missed a day or two.) but in Zyrtec I trust, and except when it comes to user error, it… Continue reading
About Me
Journalist and writer. Loves writing, storytelling, books, typewriters. Always trying to find my line. Oh, and here’s where I am now.
Nows and Forevers 