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“The water in our state is not sufficient to add more demand…and that now means that some large development can’t go forward. If we don’t make changes with water, we are going to have a major economic problem in this state.”
That’s a quote from the director of the California Department of Water Resources. With temps [...]

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Stopped into Target today, and when I came outside, the weather had gone from pleasantly warm to stiflyingly humid. Came home and joined the spousal unit in a gin and tonic. Just sitting here now listening to the thunder, a sound I very much missed in two decades in California. The fog is beautiful, but [...]

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Two days in my 7 years of North Carolina have really stood out: my wedding day, and a day about 4 years ago that I spent canoeing down the Haw River. Yesterday I got to combine the two: Barry and I paddled the Haw together. This was a different stretch: a little further north, class [...]

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While most of the country has weighed in on the party primaries, North Carolina has yet to vote. The linked article may be interesting reading for some of my out-of-state readers who are still scratching their heads wondering how a couple of unreconstructed lefties like Barry and myself are surviving life in a red state.
The [...]

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I drove to Raleigh last night and schmoozed in a ballroom at the Ramada. There were little meatballs and everything.

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Since most of my working life is spent with my nose in a computer, I wasn’t in much of a blogging mood this vacation (besides, the computer was usually occupied by you-know-who). I took lots of photos, though, and will try to post a few in the coming days. But here’s the cheat sheet for [...]

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After a brief but dramatic squall around 11pm last night, we were awakened in the early hours by thunder, lightning, pouring rain and pounding surf. The waves have been quite dramatic, sometimes 5 or 6 deep…and our noble earth-mover continued pushing sand around even as waves crashed around the bulldozer.

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We’re having some snow flurries here in Durham. Good thing it’s a holiday weekend or the region might be paralyzed.

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A compendium of photos from the wedding, the preparations and even a few (tasteful, of course) from the honeymoon.
Thanks to Donald & Kathy Towne, Herb Wilgis, Kerry Mirabella, Judy Ballas and Bruce Goren for the photos!

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Having just spent a wonderful two weeks in a beach house the next island north of Ocean Isle Beach, the story of the students from South Carolinaaffected me more than those sorts of news items usually do. From the reports of the neighbors and neighboring renters, it sounds like they were not only nice kids, [...]

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