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Weblogging

With thanks from a lady

Though my own participation has been based on pleas expressed both in anger and sadness, and the circumstances tended to distort the message, I did want to send a quiet thank you to some folk who wrote in response to the issues raised about gender and perceived bias in weblogging. Then I will drop the […]

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Just Shelley

For Life

First published sometime in 1997, I believe, at the original YASD site. Today, today, I have reconciled myself to dying. We all die, eventually. I will die … someday, hopefully far into the future. Now that I’ve got that out of the way, I might as well live, and stop being afraid of the inevitability […]

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Just Shelley

Pleasing the masses

Another one from Dynamic Earth, edited for modern times. One person somewhere in the Universe will really hate my (new web site design | photograph | writing | haircut | opinion). They’ll hate it with an almost overwhelming passion, and will be filled with a sense of loathing of it, and of me. One person […]

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Critters

Walking among the dog people part 2

First published in summer, 2002 and moved to the now defunct Dynamic Earth Yesterday I talked about my walk among the dog people, and my observations of the dogs as they enjoyed the beach, the water, and the company (canine and human). I talked about the black lab that would bring me her ball to […]

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Critters

Walking among the dog people part 1

First published in summer, 2002 and moved to the now defunct Dynamic Earth I walk, almost daily, along the beach next to the Golden Gate Bridge. This beach also happens to be one of the few areas in San Francisco where dogs are allowed off their leashes, to run along the sand and play among […]