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Just Shelley Photography

Kick own butt—the elephant marches on

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Well, I was feeling sorry for myself earlier until my friends told me to lay off and ‘quitcherbellyachin’ — sort of. In particular, Loren reminded me that rather than being out hiking in the woods, or at the St. Louis zoo as I was today, I could be as he is — poor soul, […]

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Just Shelley

Did someone say non-techie?

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I’ve been writing primarily about technology lately, though I want to assure one and all that this is NOT the focus of this weblog — it’s just one area of interest in my life. I do want to apologize to those who had subscribed to my RSS feeds, as I […]

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Writing

“The Sportswriters” by Richard Ford: A review

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Though in the end, this is all I ask for: to participate briefly in the lives of others at a low level; to speak in a plain, truth-telling voice; to not take myself too seriously; and then to have done with it. Since after all, it is one thing to […]

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Just Shelley

All things squid

I share with PZ Myers’ a love of all things cephalopod, though I tend to favor anything related to squids, giant preferably. Ethan sent me a link to SquidSoap, which I’ll have to try out, of course. My thanks for Ethan for thinking of me. Just a hint to others: If anyone comes across anything related to cephalopods in […]

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People Writing

The Turbulent Waters of Families and Writing

In my trip last week, I started out with no specific destination — just a general need to get out on the road, have some time to myself, to think. I first thought about heading to Boston, but decided Spring is a better time to visit the East, so I headed west. I then thought […]