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I’m lying in bed, sweat pouring from my face. My stomach is at peace for the moment but I know that it will become restless once again and I will be perched over the toilet puking my guts out. Two days ago, I drove seven hours from the north to get...
by phcarb
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on Fri Apr 19, 2024 at 03:03 PM PDT
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I’m lying in bed, sweat pouring from my face. My stomach is at peace for the moment but I know that it will become restless once again and I will be perched over the toilet puking my guts out. Two days ago, I drove seven hours from the north to get...
by phcarb
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on Fri Apr 19, 2024 at 02:07 PM PDT
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When your Senators work for you - https://www.merkley.senate.gov/connect/oregon-treasures-quest/ The link is to an Oregon Treasure Quest book put out by Senator Merkley’s office. It was pictures and a list of places to visit in every county in Oregon....
by umbra
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on Thu Apr 18, 2024 at 01:16 PM PDT
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Last week I had one of the most rewarding and yet most difficult experiences of my storytelling journey. I was asked to have a conversation/presentation with a group of male asylum seekers in their teens. They had crossed the border unaccompanied and...
by The Boss Gomez
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on Sat Mar 30, 2024 at 10:21 AM PDT
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This has always been one of my favorite places to visit and hang out in. There is always a variety of plants and the gardeners switch them out every so often, so no matter the time of year there’s ...
by Lenny Flank
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on Thu Apr 04, 2024 at 12:42 PM PDT
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Costa Rica is impossible to adequately describe in less than 20,000 words. Even a thousand photos won’t do it.
by mahdalgal
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on Sat Mar 16, 2024 at 06:00 AM PDT
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I was in DC giving this speech �at the National Press Foundation awards dinner.� Help keep this work sustainable by joining the � Sorensen Subscription Service! � Also on � Patreon .
by Jen Sorensen
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on Tue Mar 05, 2024 at 05:00 AM PST
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This very nice nature preserve is just a few blocks away from my mobile home winter base camp in St Pete, so I usually come here for a walk several times a week.� Alas, most of the park has been ...
by Lenny Flank
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on Sat Mar 30, 2024 at 06:19 AM PDT
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This post is another one I saved for Black History Month, because the Civil War was a war of liberation—at great cost in lives—and does not belong to Confederate apologists. Please see my other posts this month: Ode to Unconscious Cruelty, Road to...
by CorpFlunky
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on Thu Feb 15, 2024 at 08:39 AM PST
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Some photos from an afternoon walk around downtown Tampa FL.
For those who don't know, I live in a converted campervan and travel around the country, posting photo diaries of places that I visit. ...
by Lenny Flank
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on Sat Feb 03, 2024 at 06:23 AM PST
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This is a very nice aquarium in Tampa FL.�
For those who don't know, I live in a converted campervan and travel around the country, posting photo diaries of places that I visit. I am currently ...
by Lenny Flank
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on Thu Feb 01, 2024 at 12:55 PM PST
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As anyone who read my last�diary knows, I was in Nashville for MLK Jr. to see the Isles take on the the Nashville Predators. No surprise, we lost in a most humiliating fashion. But this diary is not ...
by cohenzee
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on Tue Jan 23, 2024 at 07:00 PM PST
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Most people come here for the Zoo (formerly Lowry Park Zoo, now renamed Zoo Tampa). But the park itself is also a nice place to walk around for an afternnoon.
Some photos.
For those who don't know,
by Lenny Flank
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on Sat Jan 27, 2024 at 07:11 AM PST
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and JeremyBloom. Alumni editors include (but not limited to)...
by annetteboardman
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on Fri Jan 12, 2024 at 08:59 PM PST
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This county park is located right next to the Florida Botanical Gardens. It’s a loop trail around a series of lakes. Nice place for an afternoon walk. (I am limiting all of my visits to “outdoors�
by Lenny Flank
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on Thu Jan 11, 2024 at 12:55 PM PST
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My trusty little homemade alcohol stove has developed a leak so I figured while I was repairing it I might as well make a spare one, since I don’t have one, and to document the process I use to ...
by Lenny Flank
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on Sat Jan 13, 2024 at 06:17 AM PST
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A look back at some of the places I have visited in 2023.
For those who don't know, I live in a converted campervan and travel around the country, posting photo diaries of places that I visit. I ...
by Lenny Flank
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on Mon Jan 01, 2024 at 07:00 AM PST
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UPDATE: thank you to everyone who has recommended this diary. I know so well that everyone is stretched tight at the moment. I am grateful for any eyeballs on my pathetic ask. ______________ I never thought that I would be writing a diary like this. I...
by SninkyPoo
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on Mon Dec 18, 2023 at 12:49 PM PST
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Part 2 of my 5 day adventures in the astonishing island of Maui… beneath the volcanic rock covered in forests, a great diversity of life exists among the coral.
by Username4242
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on Wed Dec 13, 2023 at 01:50 PM PST
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Good morning gardeners!
Here is a reminder of the�spring that will eventually arrive for those of us in the colder viewing areas (although it’s been a record breaking warm winter here in SW ...
by Mentha
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on Sat Feb 17, 2024 at 06:00 AM PST
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