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March 7th, 2010The Journal of Prevarication
Here lies Jim Cook,
Official State Liar of Arizona
The tsunami set off by the earthquake in Chile didn’t do much damage around the Pacific Rim, but it did cause a river surge in the Hassayampa.
A wave of sand half a meter high surged out of the Gila River near Arlington and rolled up the Hassayampa as far as Morristown, smashing against seven million acres of tumbleweeds.
We don’t have many big events like that around here. And yet we live by the weather, or lack of it. As we see reports of blizzards and flooding elsewhere in the …
Continue reading “It’s a Dry Tsunami“
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February 7th, 2010I came home from our winter tour of Lapland with terrible respiratory problems. The staff in the emergency room here in Wickenburg couldn’t believe that I got sick while being chased by …
Continue reading “Running Laps in Lapland“
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November 6th, 2009We love it when readers respond to the …
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September 30th, 2009One of the goodies Miss Ellie gave me for my birthday is a nifty little book about how things were in the year of my …
Continue reading “The Spin Cycle“
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September 23rd, 2009Kay Dixon Nichols was born in England, and now lives in Hawaii. She sent an e-mail to say that we appear to have refined ”terminological inexactitude” to a new …
Continue reading “Inexactitude, and One-eyed Cacti“
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