CAVIAR ON RITZ

Review
DEATH ROE: A WOODS COP MYSTERY
Joseph Heywood
This book reminds me that I ate caviar when I was a child – on Ritz crackers. It was served at resorts in northern Michigan and Wisconsin, as it was plentiful in the region in the late 1940s. Now I know a lot more about the industry, the Russians,

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How does a blizzard move me?

My brother sent me this evocative snow print of a painting by Bill Alexander (dated 1972). My photo of it behind glass is a little blurred — as are my memories of snow. I do remember striding on skiis through woods in Upper Michigan in the late 1940s. When our generation was in grade school,

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Quill Hedgehog On His Way

MOXIE WONDERS…
Why don’t we have hedgehogs in the United States?

According to the online National Geographic animal encyclopedia (animals.nationalgeographic.com), hedgehogs are about the size of three teacups. That is a perfect comparison, as hedgehogs are famously English. Some people there have them as sort-of pets. That’s because they eat garden pests.

We do not have hedgehogs

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The Gangster in Our Class

 

Thursday, February 7, 2013

It was understood the lanky kid who joined our 8th grade class late in 1950 was the errand boy for Ralph Capone. I am not sure the source was reliable. Nonetheless, he acted different than the other boys who regularly misbehaved. Laid back in his small desk, legs stretched out under the

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Few Degrees of Separation

Environmental issues timeless and without borders. Books and movies are useful in raising important questions. The answers are found in the

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Better Than SkyFall

There’s nothing as scary as the truth. Priest-novelist knows more than James

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Raptors Attract Crowds at ASDM

Tuesday, January 3, 2013

Winter Color Cheers Us

Tucson is home to one of the most-visited tourist attractions in the world, the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum. The purpose is to show the human beings who share this dry region or visit  just how much life there is here, and how to keep it viable.

Unlike traditional

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Be a planetizen.

MOXIE COSMOS SAYS…

I confess: I am a www.planetizen.com addict. I find the online “digest” for professional planners, designers and developers irresistible, and I could spend hours reading about ideas for a future I will not live to see.

On February 18, I encountered Will Doig’s feature on “How to solve the boomer retirement crisis.” It advises attracting older people

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Save Venice with BioArchitecture

MOXIE COSMOS SAYS…

This book you’ve got to read, and it won’t take long. It is a TED book (under 20,000 words). It will amaze you to discover how our grandchildren’s world will look — and BREATHE.

TITLE: LIVING ARCHITECTURE: HOW SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY CAN REMAKE OUR CITIES AND RESHAPE OUR LIVES
Rachel Armstrong

TED Books, 2012

A reader who got a

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SAGUARO HARVEST MEMORIES

Moxie Cosmos Says…

It’s 104 degrees F in Tucson today — but, as they say, “it’s a dry heat.”

We took a visitor from Cuiliacan, Mexico, to the Arizona Desert Museum last Saturday night, one of the summer evening openings this institution has to allow human beings to view their non-human neighbors who come out at dusk.

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