Q: Dear Jesse: My girlfriend has several children by a previous marriage. We get along well, but from time to time I find myself possessed of a desire to kill them and roast them up. I think most men do. Not only would this provide me with needed
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7. INT. APARTMENT BUILDING HALLWAY - MORNING
Elder Enos: Still I must say; play with matches, you get burned.
Elder Jed: Might you clarify that?
Elder Enos: One simply does not wash the feet of Mosias Wallace’s youngest wife.
Elder Jed: Surely
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As long as I’m digging old impromptu poems out of comments from years back and giving them pride of place, I might as well do this one, which was in a comment here. Which post also provides context in case you don’t know right offhand what a
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Cartoon by Laura Cunningham.
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Four score and seven, eight, years ago — it was some time ago, anyway, in the days of our forefathers. And the forefathers… they brought forth in this American country a new nation, America. America’s life began at the moment it was conceived in
… (continues)I'm a natural history and environmental writer, an editor and photographer. I've lived in upstate New York, the SF Bay Area, Washington, DC, the Mojave Desert, and Los Angeles. My writing has appeared in publications ranging from Camas and Orion to Bay Nature, California Wild, the Boston Globe, and about thirty daily papers nationwide when I was a syndicated garden writer for the Knight-Ridder chain. No, I never got to meet the talking car.
I've traveled extensively in the Mojave, Great Basin and Sonoran deserts, as well as in the steppes and slickrock country of the Colorado Plateau.
This blog has existed in one form or another since 2003. At first it was called Creek Running North, after Pinole Creek, near where I lived back then. I moved in 2008 and renamed the site Coyote Crossing, but about a thousand people* still link here under the old name.
My publicist tells me I should mention that my writing here has frequently been called the best on the Internet.
* May not actually equal 1000

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