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Audie Cockings
New Fiction Serial: A Girl, A Dog, A Boat
Chapter 1: Listen to Your Mother
She told me this would happen. At sixty-eight years old, my mom, Flossie, hit the nail on the head, yet again.
She was right about Andy, Marc, James, Julian, Miguel, and now Todd. I should have stuck with serial monogamy. That seemed to hurt less.
I knew it was coming but seeing Todd’s photo in The Capital Paper yesterday, cosseting a certain female named Barbie Joe caused a pain in my chest that I didn’t think possible. Todd may as well have hung me upside down on a cross, cut my heart out and BBQ’d it for his new anatomically correct and (somewhat) well-bred subdeb. I was done.
There Is a Free Lunch After All…
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4 Photos From an Afternoon at Popham Beach, Phippsburg, Maine
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Fishing for Lake Trout off the Old Mission Peninsula, Traverse City, Michigan
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Sunset On A Pristine Northern Michigan Farm
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Baby razor clams
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Why Child Sacrifice Is Easy to Imagine
Yesterday I read a shocking article by National Geographic detailing the methodical sacrificial killing of 140 children ages five to fourteen. The broken child remains were recently discovered and unearthed near Chan Chan, an archeological complex in coastal Peru. The event is estimated to be five hundred years old.
Young ones were donated by parents to be held down, sternums severed in half, and rib cages broken open so that the undersized hearts could be cut out of the bodies. The article does not state whether the children were still alive during that procedure, but that all were killed at the same time –which tells me that there were at least 140 community members who systematically killed at once. The researchers also mentioned that there were few “false starts” in the cutting, indicating that ritual members were skilled with the procedure and ceremonial blades.
Downeast, Maine in April
Saturday Nature Photography
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The Gun Debate: The Math Doesn’t Work…
A Reflection on How Far We’ve Come In 50 Years
Seeing children tout their parent’s feelings on all things political is sad to me. And yet, there are students nearby, outdoors, passionately picketing against those who most fiercely protect the free speech they are exercising.
An eleven-year-old at Maryland’s Takoma Park Middle School is holding a sign stating, “GOP Math–Guns + More Guns = Less Gun Violence”. Pretty sarcastically insightful for a sixth grader, right?
Netflix Holiday Movie Pick: Joyeux Noel (Merry Christmas)
Boots on the Ground Diplomacy
As French, Scottish and German soldiers prepare to open their presents on Christmas Eve 1914, a monumentous event occurs that changes the destinies of four people: An Anglican priest, a French lieutenant, a world-class tenor and his soprano lover. A heartwarming WWI era tale inspired by a true story.
