Monthly Archives: October 2013

The Glory of a Rural Mailbox

Posted on October 29, 2013 by Gavin Stevens

The nights are getting cold, almost cold enough for frost to grace our mornings.  There was a proto-frost, an almost-icing, on our fields yesterday morning when I walked down to get the newspapers and mail.  The air was clean and the light exceedingly โ€ฆ Continue reading โ†’

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Foggy Days and Foggy Nights

Posted on October 26, 2013 by Gavin Stevens

โ€œFog everywhere.  Fog up the river where it flows among green aits and meadows; fog down the river, where it roils defiled among the tiers of shipping, and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city.  Fog on the โ€ฆ Continue reading โ†’

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The Morning Of Our Discontent

Posted on October 17, 2013 by Gavin Stevens

Last night our nationโ€™s Congress finally passed a bill to extend our debt ceiling and to fund our government, relieving it from the shutdown forced by a wholly dysfunctional, irrational Congress โ€“ a shutdown costing our economy an estimated $24,000,000,000.  There was โ€ฆ Continue reading โ†’

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Running The Molecular Relay

Posted on October 10, 2013 by Gavin Stevens

It has been several days since my sister-in-law, Mary, passed away last weekend after months of fighting the cancer that brought her down.  Her fight was epic, but the cancer prevailed as it had too great a head start by the time it โ€ฆ Continue reading โ†’

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