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Tongue, stomach: A taste of honey

May 15th, 2004 · Comments Off on Tongue, stomach: A taste of honey

Honey tongue sounds familiar. It reminds me of bands – a song my brother’s band wrote and performs, and the Seattle band of that name..oh, and of course, I think of Song of Solomon…. But honey stomach is different anatomy. Bee anatomy. New anatomy for me. I learned yesterday morning that bees have a honey […]

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Basho and Sleeping Butterflies

May 14th, 2004 · 2 Comments

You never know what you’ll learn at the library… while wandering past some plants. My favorite garden at the Bainbridge Island Library is the Japanese garden ( picture). Yesterday while walking through it on my way to pick up a book, I saw this sign carved into a rock, a haiku by Basho: Wake up, […]

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Tomorrow’s news reporting

May 12th, 2004 · Comments Off on Tomorrow’s news reporting

Enoch posted a link to the Panel on Non Fiction Media that will take place tonight in Mountain View, CA. Of course, I can’t make it, but I’d like to be there if I could. I’d like to meet Susan Mernit. And I’d like to see Dan Gillmor again. Although I didn’t say hi to […]

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13 reasons why Cluetrain made me cry

May 10th, 2004 · 2 Comments

On my flight to Boston last month, I took with me a copy of The Cluetrain Manifesto written by Christopher Locke, David Weinberger, Doc Searls, and Rick Levine Copyright © 1999, 2001. From the first chapter, I found myself captured, underlining sentences and dogearing pages. Here are my favorite 13 quotes/themes from the book. 1. […]

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Cooking with Amelia

May 8th, 2004 · Comments Off on Cooking with Amelia

We’ve been reading a few Amelia Bedelia books around here and last night while I was being creative with some leftovers and phyllo dough I wondered how she would make Shepherds Pie….. Here’s some speculation of the history of such dish that might fit with Amelia’s assumptions. I don’t know if it’s my family’s heritage […]

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